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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Red and White: Miss E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake and the Other Woman Women’s Writing Volume 8, Issue 3 (2001) pages 359-374 DOI: 10.1080/09699080100200140 Anne Collett, Associate Professor of English Literature University of Wollongong, Australia This essay examines the dramatised conflictual relationship between “Red” and “White” selves in the performed and literary body of “half-blood” poet,…
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Hapa-Palooza challenges mixed-race stereotypes The Vancouver Sun 2011-09-07 Vivian Luk, Special To The Sun ‘We’re 100-per-cent whole, we’re Canadian,’ says filmmaker who faced identity struggles and discrimination while growing up The nickname Super Nip – partly derived from a Second World War term to describe Japanese people – and racial jokes followed Jeff Chiba Stearns…
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A Snug Little Flock: The Social Origins of the Riel Resistance, 1869-70 Watson & Dwyer Publishing, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1991 290 pages ISBN: 0-920486-48-7 Frits Pannekoek, President Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada Questions about the identities of the mixed-blood Indian-European peoples of Canada and the United States have puzzled historians and anthropologists in both countries. Who…
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Jordan Clarke: “Something In-between” @ Hang Man Gallery Hang Man Gallery 756 Queen Street East Toronto, Ontario, Canada Open Tuesday-Sunday, 12:00-17:00 ET (Local Time) Exhibit Duration: 2011-09-06 through 2011-09-25 Opening Reception: 2011-09-08, 19:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) Jordan Clarke Artist Jordan Clarke explores her mixed-race identity through paintings of self-portraiture. This series looks at being “in-between” as…
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Creating Frames and Crossing Borders: An Autobiographical Exploration of Race and Identity University of New Brunswick July 1998 131+ pages Diane Ho-Fatt This study is an exploration of the cultural constructions of race using theoretical perspectives of postmodernism through the methodology of autobiography. I explore the constructions of race and identity in my own life…
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Long Lance National Film Board of Canada 1986 Running Time: 00:55:00 Bernie Dichek, Director Was he a black man, a white man, or an Indian chief? This documentary looks at legendary and fascinating impostor Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance. In the early 1900s, he garnered international acclaim as a soldier, journalist, writer, photographer, bon vivant…
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Maroon – On the Trail of Creoles in North America National Film Board of Canada 2005 Running Time: 01:15:08 André Gladu, Director Colette Loumède, Producer Louisiana’s Creole culture helped shape the New World and contributed to the emergence of jazz. But what remains of this unique, mixed-race society, with roots in France, Africa, the Caribbean,…