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: Canada
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“After Canaan,” the first nonfiction book by acclaimed Vancouver poet Wayde Compton, repositions the North American discussion of race in the wake of the tumultuous twentieth century. It riffs on the concept of Canada as a promised land (or “Canaan”) encoded in African American myth and song since the days of slavery.
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Growing up Indigenous when you don’t look it Unreserved CBC Radio 2016-11-06 Rosanna Deerchild, Host From r: Trevor Jang, Julie Daum, and Daniel Bear. (Supplied) Has anyone ever asked you where you come from? Or what your ethnic background is? Ethnicity and how the world perceives you don’t always go together. Which presents a challenge…
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Venous Hum Arsenal Pulp Press 2004 232 page Paperback ISBN: 9781551521701 Suzette Mayr High school reunions can be hell. But when you throw in racial and sexual tensions, extramarital affairs, and cannibalistic, undead vegetarians, it’s hell times infinity. Brash, clever, and monstrously funny, Venous Hum charts the lives of Lai Fun Kugelheim and Stefanja Dumanowski,…
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VIFF honours B.C. filmmakers Ann Marie Fleming, Kevan Funk, Julia Hutchings, Jessica Parsons, and Jennifer Chiu The Georgia Straight Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2016-10-11 Charlie Smith Ann Marie Fleming’s Window Horses won the prize for Best Canadian Film as well as the B.C. Film Award at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival. The Vancouver International…
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Where is the love: How tolerant is Canada of its interracial couples? The Globe and Mail 2016-10-03 Zosia Bielski Minelle Mahtani, an associate professor in human geography and journalism at the University of Toronto Scarborough, wrote the book Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality in Canada. (Jennifer Van Houten) Is love the last…
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Mixed Match documentary explores difficult search for multi-ethnic donors CBC Radio-Canada 2016-10-01 Emotional documentary about mixed-race patients seeking bone marrow, stem cell donors, a call to action It means a lot to film maker Jeff Chiba Stearns to have his new documentary Mixed Match showing at the Vancouver International Film Festival, a multi-cultural city he calls home. Stearns ancestry…
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Canada’s racial divide: Confronting racism in our own backyard The Globe and Mail 2016-09-26 Tavia Grant, Reporter Nova Browning Rutherford, who is half black and half white, and has lived in Ontario, Alberta and Los Angeles, poses for a photo at her home in Mississauga, Ont. on Friday. (Michelle Siu for The Globe and Mail)…
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Hapa-palooza Festival 2016 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2016-09-23 through 2016-09-25 CELEBRATING MIXED HERITAGE The sixth annual Hapa-palooza Festival runs for the month of September 2016, including a month long Hybrid Identity Art Exhibit at the Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, and three days of free community programming welcoming all from Sept. 23-25th: For more information, click…
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‘You look like the help’: the disturbing link between Asian skin color and status Fusion 2016-08-25 Mari Santos Toronto, Ontario, Canada Outside a hotel lobby in Toronto earlier this year, an elderly Asian woman stopped my mother and me to ask what time a tour bus would be arriving. Then, the woman asked in broken…