Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Asian Diaspora
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Census Bureau Statement on Classifying Filipinos United States Census Bureau 2015-11-09 Release Number: CB15-RTQ.26 Public Information Office: 301-763-3030 NOV. 9, 2015 — The Census Bureau has no current plans to classify Filipinos outside of the Asian race category. Filipinos are classified as Asian on Census Bureau forms based on the Office of Management and Budget’s…
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Isamu was a boy of the East and the West. Born in the United States to a Japanese father and Scotch-Irish American mother, Isamu grew up in Japan. From his earliest years he felt the tug of his biracial heritage, never quite fitting in or thinking he belonged. Pleasure came, however, from the natural world.…
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My Face is a Face of Asian America Hapa Mama: Asian Fusion Family and Food 2015-11-14 Candace Kita “Blending in” has never been my strong suit. As a generally shy and rather bookish individual, I have always wished that I could more naturally fit seamlessly into my surroundings. However, my inability to blend into established…
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Racial Microaggressions Among Asian American and Latino/a Students at a Historically Black University Journal of College Student Development Volume 56, Number 7, October 2015 pages 705-722 DOI: 10.1353/csd.2015.0076 Robert T. Palmer, Associate Professor Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Howard University, Washington, D.C. Dina C. Maramba, Assistant Professor of Student Affairs Administration Binghampton University,…
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Clarion University forced to cancel play over actors’ race Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2015-11-12 Bill Schackner, Higher Education Writer Student actors and the stage crew at Clarion University arrived Tuesday evening for one of the final rehearsals before next week’s campus opening of “Jesus in India” only to learn the off-Broadway production they had spent…
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Young adult literary fiction for teens struggling with racial and cultural identity and racism.
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Annette Kellerman, Rose Quong and Merle Oberon were internationally successful ‘Australian’ performers of the first half of the twentieth century. Kellerman was a swimmer, diver, lecturer, and silent-film star, Quong an actor, lecturer and writer who forged a career in London and New York, and Oberon one of the most celebrated film stars of the…
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She was one of the most glamorous stars of the 1930s and ’40s. A screen siren with smouldering looks, exotic features and almond-shaped eyes. Merle Oberon was described as graceful and hauntingly beautiful.
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‘Monstress’: Inside The Fantasy Comic About Race, Feminism And The Monster Within The Hollywood Reporter 2015-11-03 Graeme McMillan “I didn’t realize how massive it was until I started writing it,” creator Marjorie Liu tells THR. Monstress, a new comic book series from Image Comics which launches this week, is all about hidden depths. Not only…
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Koreans & Camptowns: Reflections of a Mixed-Race Korean Korean American Story 2015-11-04 Cerrissa Kim I’ve often stood out from the crowd, and not in a way that made me feel like a rock star—far from it. Growing up in a rural town filled with dairy cows and Caucasian farmers, and then in a bedroom community…