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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John A. Macdonald wanted an ‘Aryan’ Canada The Ottawa Citizen 2012-08 Tim Stanley, Professor of History University of Ottawa In 1885, John A. Macdonald told the House of Commons that, if the Chinese were not excluded from Canada, “the Aryan character of the future of British America should be destroyed …” This was the precise…
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Far Corner Of The Strange Empire Central Alberta On The Eve Of Homestead Settlement Great Plains Quarterly Volume 3, Number 2, Spring 1983 pages 92-108 William C. Wonders University of Alberta In the latter part of the nineteenth century, what is now central Alberta was a region in transition. For centuries the area had been…
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Don’t Call Me Hapa ricepaper: Asian Canadian Arts and Culture Issue 16.3 (Fall 2011) The Hybrid Issue Arron Leaf THERE WAS A MOMENT IN HIGH SCHOOL when I was fascinated with mixed-race identity and the word “Hapa.” Using this Hawaiian term meaning “half” as in “half-white” to describe myself felt empowering, somehow. My mom is…
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Indigenous Studies (INST) 370/History (HIST) 370: The Métis (Revision 2) Athabasca University Athabasca, Alberta, Canada INST 370 traces the historical development of Canada’s Métis from the period of the fur trade to the present. It includes discussion and debates about the origins of Métis nationalism, the validity of Métis land claims, and the character of…
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Irrevocable Ties and Forgotten Ancestry: The Legacy of Colonial Intermarriage for Descendents of Mixed Ancestry University of British Columbia, Vancouver April 2008 56 pages Kim S. Dertien A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Anthropology) The identities of mixed Aboriginal…
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Born of a Palestinian father and a British mother, Rezak has always been intrigued by the different worlds from which his parents came. His father’s ancestors were highwaymen on the Arabian Peninsula in the eighteenth century.
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Re-searching Metis Identity: My Metis Family Story University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon April 2010 200 pages Tara Turner A Thesis Submitted to the College of Graduate Studies and Research in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Psychology This research explores Metis identity through the use of…
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Mixed race: Fastest growing demographic in Canada The Province Vancouver, British Columbia 2012-06-24 Sam Cooper …And the hardest in the world to find a match for blood cells; one in millions, literally Brutal. Intensive. Without hope. Those are words that just don’t translate when you hear the voice of 14-year-old Lourdess Sumners, of Duncan. She’s…
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The Hybridity Revolution Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 2012-05-31 Michelle La Flamme Adebe DeRango-Adem (Editor) and Andrea Thompson (Editor), Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out. Societies that pride themselves on an imagined monoracial norm have rare glimpses into the multi-racial experience. The contemporary literary phenomenon some refer to as the “boom…