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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Anchored by Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga, ‘Passing’ on Netflix tells the story of racial passing back in 1920s New York. But it’s more relevant, and personal, than ever
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North End Business Association announces it will commission a commemorative art piece
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Marginal Citizens: Interracial intimacies and the incarceration of Japanese Canadians, 1942–1949 Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et SociétéPublished online 2021-09-08DOI: 10.1017/cls.2021.18 Mary Anne Vallianatos, Ph.D. CandidateUniversity of Victoria School of Law, British Columbia Following Japan’s 1941 attacks on Hawai’i and Hong Kong, Canada relocated, detained, and exiled citizens and…
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Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers explains the particular kind of pain revelations about Michelle Latimer have caused within the Indigenous film community
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Bourassa, a professor in the department of community health and epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan and a leading expert on indigenous issues, has been exposed as a fraud. A family tree prepared by a group of academics who were suspicious of her ancestral claims shows that Bourassa is of Swiss, Hungarian, Polish and Czechoslovakian…
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The Carrie Bourassa story is yet another example of a kind of cultural Munchausen Syndrome The Globe and Mail Toronto, Canada 2021-11-09 Drew Hayden Taylor Carrie Bourassa, a University of Saskatchewan professor, told the world her ancestry was Métis, Anishnawbe and Tlingit. But she has been unable to verify her ancestry following reports questioning those…
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University of Saskatchewan, CIHR place Bourassa on leave over lack of evidence
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Carrie Bourassa, one of the country’s most-esteemed Indigenous health experts, claims to be Métis, Anishinaabe and Tlingit. Some of her colleagues say there’s no evidence of that.