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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Transforming Three Sisters: A Hapa Family in Chekhov’s Modern Classic Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies Volume 3 (2012): Special Issue: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature pages 130-146 Elizabeth Liang “All right, let’s agree that this town is backward and vulgar, and let’s suppose now that out of all its thousands of inhabitants there are…
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Pictures made in the ’60s by a young photographer, Joo Myung Duck, depict the mixed-race children of foreign servicemen and Korean women
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In Japan’s Okinawa, saving indigenous languages is about more than words The Washington Post 2014-11-29 Anna Fifield, Tokyo Bureau Chief NISHIHARA, Japan — Rising in turn at their wooden desks, the students giggled, squirmed or shuffled as they introduced themselves, some practically in a whisper. “Waa naamee ya — yaibiin . . . (My name is . . . ).” One…
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Waiting For Saskatchewan Turnstone Press 1985 96 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0888011008 Fred Wah Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry 1985 Wah interprets memory—a journey to China and Japan, his father’s experience as a Chinese immigrant in small Canadian towns, images from childhood—to locate the influence of genealogy. The procession of narrative reveals Wah’s…
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Monday Murder Mystery: Everything I Never Told You Daily Kos 2014-11-24 Susan Grisby Everything I Never Told You: A Novel by Celeste Ng; Published by Penguin Press; June 26th 2014. 297 pages Families are probably the most mysterious strangers we will ever know. Sure, we know their names and that one is a brother or…
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Kathleen López: Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History New Books in Latin American Studies: Discussions with Scholars of Latin America about Their New Books 2014-11-21 Alejandra Bronfman, Associate Professor of History University of British Columbia, Canada Successive waves of migration brought thousands of Chinese laborers to Cuba over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The coolie trade,…
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At its optimistic best, America has embraced its identity as the world’s melting pot. Today it is on the cusp of becoming a country with no racial majority, and new minorities are poised to exert a profound impact on U.S. society, economy, and politics.
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Sesquicentennial Event Addresses Colorado Inequality Clarion: The University of Denver’s Newwspaper Since 1892 Denver, Colorado 2014-10-21 Carissa Cherpes DU hosted a Sesquicentennial Conversation entitled Miscegenation Law, Marriage Equality, and the West 1864-2014 on Oct. 15 in the Sturm College of Law. Over 50 students, faculty and others gathered to listen to three panelists lecture on…
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The Skin I’m In – At the Korean Sauna Ms. Food Queen: Cooking Across Difference November 2014 Christine Gregory I am lying naked on a padded linoleum table while a heavyset Korean ajumma (middle aged woman) scrubs every inch of my body. I catch a glimpse of the tiny rolls of dead skin left behind…
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Review: Leilani Nishime’s Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture Slant 2014-02-03 Clayton Dillard, Staff Critic In 2003, The New York Times published an article entitled “Generation E.A.” which discussed the emergent role of multiracial people in advertising campaigns and concluded by suggesting that they’re an emerging racial category and a stepping-stone key to…