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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The Métis Métis National Council Ottowa, Ontario, Canada 2011 Prior to Canada’s crystallization as a nation in west central North America, the Métis people emerged out of the relations of Indian women and European men. While the initial offspring of these Indian and European unions were individuals who possessed mixed ancestry, the gradual establishment of…
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Jazz, Race Collide With War In 1930s Europe Tell Me More National Public Radio 2012-03-26 Jacki Lyden, Host The novel Half Blood Blues explores an often overlooked slice of history: black jazz musicians in Germany on the eve of World War II. The book moves from 1992 to 1939, from Baltimore to Berlin to Paris.…
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Children of the Occupation: Japan’s Untold Story NewSouth Books (American Edition coming soon from Rutgers University Press) July 2012 352 pages 234 x 153mm Paperback ISBN: 9781742233314 Walter Hamilton, Journalist and Author This is a beautifully written, deeply moving and well-researched account of the lives of mixed-race children of occupied Japan. The author artfully blends…
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Miscegenation in the Marvelous: Race and Hybridity in the Fantasy Novels of Neil Gaiman and China Miéville University of Western Ontario 2012 120 pages Nikolai Rodrigues A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English Fantasy literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries uses the construction…
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Jemmy Jock Bird: Marginal Man on the Blackfoot Frontier University of Calgary Press 2004 205 pages 16 b/w illustrations, 1 b/w photo, index Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55238-111-3 John C. Jackson Jemmy Jock Bird, the son of a Cree woman and a mixed-blood trader employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company, has become part of the mythology of…
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Hapa-Palooza Festival: September 12, 13 & 15, 2012 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2012-09-12, 2012-09-13 and 2012-09-15 Hapa-Palooza: A Vancouver Celebration of Mixed-Roots Arts and Ideas is a new cultural festival that celebrates the city’s identity as a place of hybridity, synergy and acceptance. A vibrant fusion of music, dance, literary, artistic and film performances, Hapa-Palooza…
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Questioning Being Black and White in Canada Canadian Dimension: for people who want to change the world 2012-08-24 Denise Hansen “Canadians have a favourite pastime, and they don’t even realize it. They like to ask—they absolutely love to ask—where you are from if you don’t look convincingly white. They want to know it, they need…
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Whispering Grounds whispers thoughts of origins and nature Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph 2011-10-19 Amanda Halm Whispering Grounds, an exhibit of 13 charcoal drawings by artist Annie Lalande, is currently on display at the Bank National Financial Group Gallery, a space dedicated to visual arts in the Palais Montcalm. Incongruous lines and organic shapes sweep across paper to…
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Disentangling “Race” and Indigenous Status: The Role of Ethnicity Queen’s Law Journal Volume 33, Issue 2 (Spring 2008) pages 487 Sébastien Grammond, Dean and Associate Professor of Law University of Ottawa The notion of “race” is a social construction, discredited today by scientists as factually unsound. Individuals cannot be organized into discrete groups of people based solely…