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: Anthropology
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Pacifically Possessed: Scientific Production and Native Hawaiian Critique of the “Almost White” Polynesian Race University of California, San Diego 2013 320 pages Maile Renee Arvin A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Ethnic Studies This dissertation analyzes how scientific knowledge has represented the Polynesian race as…
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Hawai’i’s Interracial History, Culture, and Tradition: Construction and Deconstruction (Sawyer Seminar VIII) University of Southern California, University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library East Asian Seminar Room (110C) Friday, 2014-02-28, 09:00-13:00 PST (Local Time) How are islands connectors of flows of peoples and culture? What types of constructions and deconstructions of race and identity have influenced…
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Color Without Complex: A Conversation w/ Michaela Angela Davis & Dr. Yaba Blay New York University, Washington, D.C. Abramson Family Auditorium 1307 L Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005 Tuesday, 2014-02-18, 18:30 EST (Local Time) Michaela Angela Davis Yaba Blay, Ph.D., Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania What exactly…
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In a moving account, anthropologist Paula L. Wagoner tells the story of Bennett County, using snapshots of community events and crises, past and present, to reveal the complexity of race relations and identities there.
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Are You My Cousin? The New York Times 2014-01-31 A. J. Jacobs I love my family, but I’m glad I don’t have to buy birthday presents for all my cousins. I’d be bankrupt within a week. My family tree sprawls far and wide. It’s not even a tree, really. More like an Amazonian forest. At…