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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Miscegenation: Wedded Bliss Denied to Jap. Los Angeles Daily Mirror 1910-03-16/1910-03-17 Seeks to Marry Los Angeles Woman in Nevada. Gets License, But Finally Surrenders It. Couple Get Cold Shoulders in Two Cities. (By Direct Wire to the Times) GOLDFIELD (Nev.) March 16.—[Exclusive Dispatch.] George Masaki, describing himself as a Japanese gardener, accompanied by Juliette Schwan.…
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Afro-Chinese Wedding San Francisco Call Volume 78, Number 147 (1895-10-25) page 4, column 2 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection STOCKTON, Cal., Oct. 24.—Chu Gun, a local Chinese sport, was to-day married to Irene Wilson, a dashing octoroon girl. The entire population of Chinatown celebrated the affair this evening.
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Becoming Mexipino: A Book Event with Rudy Guevarra Jr. California State University, Fullerton Langsdorf Hall 402 (Map) Thursday, 2013-04-25, 16:00-17:30 PDT (Local Time) Rudy Guevarra, Jr., Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University, Tempe Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical interpretation of two ethnic…
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Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity Beacon Press 2001 232 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-080705011-8 Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut Selected as One of the Village Voice’s Favorite 25 Books of 2001 In this…
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Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 (review) [Sheffer] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 37, Number 4, Winter 2012 DOI: 10.1353/mel.2012.0061 pages 203-205 Jolie A. Sheffer, Associate Professor, English and American Culture Studies Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Julia H. Lee’s Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and…
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“Citizen Sure Thing” or “Jus’ Foreigner”?: Half-Caste Citizenship and the Family Romance in Onoto Watanna’s Orientalist Fiction Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 13, Number 1, February 2010 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.0.0067 pages 81-105 Jolie A. Sheffer, Associate Professor, English and American Culture Studies Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio In “a contract” (1902), one of Winnifred…
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Artists explore the image of mixed race Asian-Americans in DePaul exhibit Medill Reports, Chicago 2013-04-18 Zhiyu Wang Medill Reports is written and produced by graduate journalism students at Northwestern University’s Medill school. In college, Wei Ming Dariotis used to want a T-shirt with “war baby” on the front and “love child” on the back. That…
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Opening 4/25: “War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art” DePaul Art Museum Chicago, Illinois 2013-04-16 CHICAGO — The DePaul Art Museum explores the construction of mixed-heritage Asian American identity in the United States with “War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art,” which opens April 25. “It gives visibility to the increasingly…