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  • Rejecting Blackness and Claiming Whiteness: Antiblack Whiteness in the Biracial Project

    Over the past fifteen years in the United States, there has emerged a concerted push to reclassify people with one Black and one white parent as biracial. Advocates of this biracial project seek to have people of mixed parentage (PMP) recognized as a distinct, biracial race. They maintain that a biracial identity is more mentally…

  • How to Rehabilitate a Mulatto: The Iconography of Tiger Woods

    How to Rehabilitate a Mulatto: The Iconography of Tiger Woods Chapter in East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (pages 222-245) New York University Press May 2005 382 pages 29 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780814719626 Paperback ISBN: 9780814719633 Edited By: Shilpa Davé, Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Assistant Professor of Media Studies and American Studies…

  • Race, Biraciality, and Mixed Race—in Theory

    Race, Biraciality, and Mixed Race—in Theory Chapter in: Her Majesty’s Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age Rowman & Littlefield 288 pages August 1997 Size: 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8476-8447-2 eBook ISBN: 978-0-585-20172-6 pages 51-71 Lewis R. Gordon, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Institute for the…

  • New Faces, Old Faces: Counting the Multiracial Population Past and Present

    Multiracial Americans have often been heralded as “new people” and in fact have been rediscovered as such more than once in the last century. Charles Chesnutt’s 1899 novel The House Behind the Cedars features a mulatto character who uses the phrase to describe himself and others like him; in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s,…

  • Mixing Up the Game: Social and Historical Contours of Black Mixed Heritage Players in British Football

    Mixing Up the Game: Social and Historical Contours of Black Mixed Heritage Players in British Football Mark Christian, Professor & Chair of African & African American Studies Lehman College, City University of New York pages 131-144 in the volume Race, Ethnicity and Football: Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues Routledge 2011-03-29 288 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-88205-7…

  • Afro-Germans and the Problems of Cultural Location

    Afro-Germans and the Problems of Cultural Location Molefi Kete Asante, Professor of African American Studies Temple University The African German Experience: Critical Essays Greenwood Publishing 1997 edited by Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay The leitmotif of the German society in regards to African people has a lot to do with the way Germans approach racial difference. Thus,…

  • Passing and the Problematic of Multiracial Pride (or, Why One Mixed Girl Still Answers to Black)

    I have never had the comfort zone of a given racial identity. My mother is a Bostonian white woman of WASP heritage. My father is a Louisiana black man of mixed African and Mexican heritage. Unlike people who are automatically classified as black or white, I have always been up for debate. I am forever having…

  • Mixed Asian Americans and Health: Navigating Uncharted Waters

    Mixed Asian Americans and Health: Navigating Uncharted Waters Chapter in: Handbook of Asian American Health Springer 2013 pages 129-134 Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-2226-6 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-2227-3 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-2227-3 Edited by: Grace J. Yoo San Francisco State University   Mai-Nhung Le San Francisco State University Alan Y. Oda Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California Chapter Author: Cathy J.…

  • Passing for Black in Seventeenth-Century Maryland

    Passing for Black in Seventeenth-Century Maryland Chapter in: Interpreting the Early Modern World: Transatlantic Perspectives Springer 2011 246 pages eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-70759-4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-70758-7 Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2709-4 Edited by: Mary C. Beaudry and James Symonds Chapter Authors: Julia A. King, Associate Professor of Anthropology St. Mary’s College of Maryland Edward E. Chaney In the…

  • Organizing 101: A Mixed-Race Feminist in Movements for Social Justice

    Organizing 101: A Mixed-Race Feminist in Movements for Social Justice Chapter in: Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism Seal Press April 2002 432 pages ISBN-10: 1580050670 ISBN-13: 9781580050678 Edited by: Daisy Hernandez Bushara Rehman Foreword by: Cherríe Moraga Chapter Author: Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz pages 29-39 I have vivid memories of celebrating the holidays…