Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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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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It’s My Party and I’ll Be Biracial if I Want to College Magazine 2015-07-23 Emanuel Griffin University of Florida The fact that I am half black and half Asian is the coolest thing about me. It’s like being a one-man Wu-Tang Clan. It’s like being the handsome result of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker having…
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Meet this year’s outstanding contributors at The Globies! The Seattle Globalist 2015-07-17 Christina Twu, Editor/Contributor The Seattle Globalist is proud to recognize three brilliant Globalist writers that have made outstanding contributions to our publication this year, helping to grow our coverage and make 2015 a phenomenal year for us. Please join us in recognizing these…
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Mixed Race Okinawans and Their Obscure In-Betweeness Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 35, Issue 6 (November 2014) pages 646-661 DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2014.963531 Mitzi Uehara Carter While critical mixed race studies and popular discourse of haafu (half) are proliferating in Japan, the case of mixed race people in Okinawa remains obscure within these studies as exceptional cases…
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Post-Magical Thinking America The Offing: A Los Angeles Review of Books Channel 2015-06-05 Matthew Salesses This semester, a strange thing happened. A student came to my office hours to complain about the difficulties of understanding her own oppression. I teach a course called “Asians in the Media” at the University of Houston, where I am…
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Why Media Representation Matters To Biracial And Multiracial People Blue Nation Review 2015-06-04 John Paul Brammer, Identity Editor “So, you’re sort of nothing then.” I’ve only heard this once. Someone asked me what my race was because they were curious. I explained to them that I was mixed, that I had both indigenous and European…
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Racism under a Friendly Guise Joy Huang Stoffers: Writer and Novelist Saturday, 2015-05-09 Joy Huang Stoffers racism, n. A belief that one’s own racial or ethnic group is superior, or that other such groups represent a threat to one’s cultural identity, racial integrity, or economic well-being; (also) a belief that the members of different racial…
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The beauty contest winner making Japan look at itself BBC News 2015-06-04 Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, Tokyo Correspondent At first sight even I am a little confused by Ariana Miyamoto. She is tall and strikingly beautiful. But the first thing that pops in to my head when I meet the newly crowned Miss Universe Japan is that…
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Schools for European and Eurasian children in India: Making of the official policy in colonial India and its contemporary significance Policy Futures in Education Volume 13, Number 3 (April 2015) pages 315-327 DOI: 10.1177/1478210315569040 Heeral Chhabra, M.Phil Research Scholar Department of History University of Delhi, India The history of education in India has been looked…