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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Rosario Dawson and the Ambiguous Blackness of Latinidad antenna 2012-08-05 Keara Goin As has become abundantly clear to me over the course of my research, in the context of contemporary popular U.S. racial discourse, one is either Latina/o or Black, not both. Moreover, we see this phenomenon replicated in U.S. cinema, where characters played by…
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Who Gets To Decide Who Is Native American? Tell Me More National Public Radio 2012-08-09 Michel Martin, Host Rob Capriccioso, Washington Bureau Chief Indian Country Today Media Network Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan A controversy about identity has erupted in the race for…
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Who Is Jamaica? The New York Times 2012-08-05 Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica DURING last week’s independence festivities, I took out my prized commemorative plate. It was a gift from the mother of a long-ago boyfriend who, incomprehensibly, complained constantly that his mother loved me…
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A class of free Negroes existed in America almost from the time that they were first introduced into the Virginia colony in 1619. Contrary to popular belief, the free class may even be said to be prior in origin to the slave class, since the first Negroes brought to America, did not have the status…