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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Multiracial family embraces twins’ uniqueness News 10, KXTV Sacramento, California 2014-10-02 Daria Givens, News 10 Staff A Lincoln family embodies California’s melting pot and embraces their uniqueness. LINCOLN – Fraternal twins Viviana and Dennis look very different from each other. They are part of the Ng Family, a multiracial family from all parts of the…
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Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family by Chandra Mallampalli (review) [Epstein] Victorian Studies Volume 56, Number 3, Spring 2014 pages 519-520 DOI: 10.1353/vic.2014.0064 James Epstein, Distinguished Professor of History Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Mallampalli, Chandra, Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family (Cambridge, New…
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Exploring Identity: The Asian American Experience at Harvard The Harvard Crimson: The University Daily since 1873 Harvard University 2014-09-25 Maia R. Silber, Crimson Staff Writer While last year’s “I, Too, Am Harvard” focused on identity and belongingness on a multiracial campus, Harvard’s AAPI students will also examine these concepts within the context of their own…
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Hapa-palooza 2014 celebrates three giants of mixed-heritage Vancouver Observer Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2014-09-28 Jordan Yerman An artist, a scientist, and a poet: Hapa-palooza honours Kip Fulbeck, Ann Makosinski, and Fred Wah. “What am I? I’m what’s on your spoon when you pull it out of the melting pot!!” So writes a subject in California-based…
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‘Alien Citizen’ delivers a raw, moving sociological odyssey The Williams Record: The Independent Student Newspaper at WIlliams College since 1887 Williamstown, Massachusetts 2014-09-24 William Walker, Staff Writer If there’s anything that students at the College love to think about, it’s identity. Indeed, the big questions about who we are, what we want to do and…
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Black Fathers, Present and Accountable Lens Blog: Photography, Video and Visual Journalism The New York Times 2014-09-19 Maurice Berger, Research Professor and Chief Curator Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture University of Maryland, Baltimore County An anxious little girl hugs her father as a shark swims overhead in an aquarium. A man feeds his…
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‘Hapa-palooza’ Celebrates Canada’s Mixed-Heritage Residents NBC News 2014-09-22 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Vancouver is gearing up for the Hapa-palooza Festival, the world’s largest celebration of mixed heritage and hybrid identity, to be held at locations throughout the city this month. The word “hapa” usually means a person who is part Asian or Pacific Islander, but festival…
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Elizabeth Liang finds home: Performance at Williams College ’62 Center The Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield, Massachusetts 2014-09-17 Madeline Vuong, Special to Berkshires Week & Shires of Vermont WILLIAMSTOWN — “Where are you from?” It’s an easy question on the surface, but a more complicated matter if you’re Elizabeth Liang, a child of mixed-race parentage, who grew…