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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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
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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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This is Not a Biography: Pauline Johnson and the Process of National Identity Canadian Poetry Volume 48 (Spring/Summer 2001) Shelley Hulan, Associate Professor of English University of Waterloo, Canada Carole Gerson and Veronica Strong-Boag. Paddling Her Own Canoe: the Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson–Tekahionwake. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2000. 331 pp. Anyone…
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Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) University of Toronto Press June 2000 354 pages Paper ISBN: 9780802080240 Cloth ISBN: 9780802041623 Veronica Strong-Boag, Professor of Women’s History University of British Columbia Carole Gerson, Professor of English Royal Society of Canada at Simon Fraser University Winner of the Raymond Klibansky…
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Re-searching Metis identity: My Metis Family story University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon April 2010 200 pages Tara J. 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 University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon This research explores Metis…
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Treating a medical mosaic, doctors develop a new appreciation for the role of ethnicity in disease The Globe and Mail Toronto, Canada 2012-02-15 Dakshana Bascaramurty, Reporter Baby X is born in a Canadian hospital and her tiny, wrinkled body is placed on a scale that reads 3,061 grams, or 6 pounds and 12 ounces. Things…
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Métis identity matters Winnipeg Free Press 2011-02-09 Editorial The question of Métis identity has befuddled Canadians, governments and the courts ever since Louis Riel occupied Upper Fort Garry in 1869 and established a provisional government. Just who were these troublemakers, who had their own language, customs and practices, and who now claimed territorial rights? Well,…
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Donna Bailey Nurse: Addressing mixed race in literature CBC Books 2012-02-28 Donna Bailey Nurse Throughout February and March, literary journalist, teacher and author Donna Bailey Nurse will be blogging for CBC Books about black Canadian writers and their important works. In her third post, she explores the complex subject of mixed race and how different…
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Black History Month: Making truth live The Windsor Star 2012-02-27 Elise Harding-Davis To me, as a Canadian woman of African origins, Black History Month is meant to share factual stories and events about North America’s African-based cultures. It is also a prime time to debunk myths and validate folklore and our cherished oral histories. …
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ENGL 3270.03: Contemporary Canadian Literature: Crossing the Line Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Summer 2007 Dr. C. Dawson Our study of contemporary Canadian literature will be loosely divided into three sections, each organized around the idea of “crossing the line.” In the first section the line under consideration will be the border that defines…