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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The ‘Failed’ Project of Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Puerto Rican Discourse A Contra corriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America Volume 5, Number 3, Spring 2008 pages 243-251 Sonja Stephenson Watson, Director of the Women’s & Gender Studies Program; Associate Professor of Spanish University of Texas, Arlington Escritura afropuertorriqueña y modernidad (2007),…
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“Double Bind / Double Consciousness” in the Poetry of Carmen Colón Pellot and Julia de Burgos Cincinnati Romance Review Volume 30 (Winter 2011) pages 69-82 Sonja Stephenson Watson, Director of the Women’s & Gender Studies Program; Associate Professor of Spanish University of Texas, Arlington Carmen Colón Pellot and Julia de Burgos constructed a female literary…
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One of the Coast Guard’s great heroes and the secret he kept hidden
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Exploring Classification of Black-White Biracial Students in Oregon Schools University of Oregon December 2012 145 pages Deana M. James Presented to the Department of Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership and the Graduate School of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Multiracial children constitute one…
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A Black Female Astrophysicist Explains Why Hidden Figures Isn’t Just About History Gizmodo 2017-01-17 Rae Paoletta Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson in Hidden Figures. Image: 20th Century Fox/YouTube First, it beat Star Wars: Rogue One. Now, for the second weekend since its wide-release debut, Hidden Figures—the true story of three black female mathematicians at NASA—is number…
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98-Year-Old NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson: ‘If You Like What You’re Doing, You Will Do Well’ People 2016-11-04 Caitlin Keating Katherine Johnson thinks all of her accomplishments over the 98 years she’s been alive are “ordinary.” But to the rest of the world, they’re anything but. Johnson, a physicist, space scientist and mathematician graduated from high school…
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All of which makes Michael Tisserand’s “Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White” a fascinating and frustrating biography. Though Herriman’s “Krazy Kat” comic strip was admired in his lifetime, it wasn’t until years after his death in 1944 that his vast influence received widespread critical respect.
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Interview with Scenters-Zapico As Us Issue 2 (December 2015) Casandra Lopez, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief “As a poet, I’m interested in what art can be created from the anxieties of being from such a place. What can we create from these experiences? I’m a poet, not a rhetorician—it’s not my place to tell you as a reader…