Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Dismantling the Race Myth Kyoto International Conference Center Kyoto, Japan 2012-12-15 through 2012-12-16 Poster (PDF, Japanese) Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University presents International Symposium. “Race” still has social reality even though it has no biological reality. This symposium aims to dismantle the race myth by bringing together scholars in a wide range…
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Whiteness and the city: Australians of Anglo-Indian heritage in suburban Melbourne South Asian Diaspora Volume 4, Issue 2, May 2012 pages 123-137 DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2012.675721 Michele Lobo, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow Arts and Education Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Leslie Morgan School of Education Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia This paper uses an auto-ethnographic approach to map…
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Afro-Latin And The Negro Common: An Interview With Dr. Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas Racialicious 2012-09-05 Lamont Lilly Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas is the Interim Chair of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at North Carolina Central University, where his interests lie in Transatlantic and Diaspora Studies. He is the author of five books, including The Africanization of…
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Diving into the Gene Pool TIME Magazine 2006-08-20 Carolina A. Miranda If they held a convention for racial purity, I would never make the guest list. Like most other Latin American families, mine is a multiethnic stew that has left me with the generic black-eyed and olive-skinned look typical of large swaths of the world’s…
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n this episode Al Letson and guest producer Lu Olkowski visit a tiny town [East Jackson/Waverly] in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio where, for a century, residents have shared the common bond of identifying as African-American despite the fact that they look white. Racial lines have been blurred to invisibility, and people inside the same…
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Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States Duke University Press 2009 408 pages 19 photographs Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4440-7 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4426-1 Micol Seigel, Associate Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies Indiana University In Uneven Encounters, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States…
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Nation Drag: Uses of the Exotic The Journal of Transnational American Studies ISSN 1940-0764 Volume 1, Issue 1 (2009) Micol Seigel, Associate Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies Indiana University In Uneven Encounters, the forthcoming book from which this article is excerpted, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the…
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Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking (review) Journal of World History Volume 23, Number 3, September 2012 pages 676-680 DOI: 10.1353/jwh.2012.0064 Magnus Fiskesjö, Associate Professor of Anthropology Cornell University Michael Keevak has given us a wonderful, even riveting, deep-historical account of how people in Asia (particularly East Asia) came to be seen as…
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Curious Studies of Mixed Bloods in the West Indies Timaru Herald Timaru, New Zealand Volume XXXVI, Issue 2366 1882-04-22 page 3 Source: Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa The following is contributed by the Paris correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune—There has been an interesting diicussion on the negro…