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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- 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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Q&A with ‘Indian Blood’ author Andrew J. Jolivette University of Washington Press Blog 2016-06-24 In his new book Indian Blood: HIV & Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community, Andrew J. Jolivette examines the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, and provides an analysis of the emerging…
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Standing Up for My Biracial Identity Marie Claire 2016-06-28 Christine Stoddard And what no one understands about it. I realized that my mother was unlike my classmates’ mothers the first time another kid asked if she was my nanny. From the on, I became a little spy in my own home—seeing my mother as other…
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Multiraciality Enters the University: Mixed Race Identity and Knowledge Production in Higher Education University of Maryland 2016 DOI: 10.13016/M2QB78 Aaron Allen “Multiraciality Enters the University: Mixed Race Identity and Knowledge Production in Higher Education,” explores how the category of “mixed race” has underpinned university politics in California, through student organizing, admissions debates, and the development…
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Race and Medicine in America (AMST 256 – 01) Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Fall 2016 Megan H. Glick, Assistant Professor of American Studies This course will trace ideas of race in American medical science and its cultural contexts, from the late 19th century to the present. We will explore how configurations of racial difference have…
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What are you? A CRT perspective on the experiences of mixed race persons in ‘post-racial’ America Race Ethnicity and Education Volume 18, Issue 1, 2015 pages 1-19 DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2014.911160 Celia Rousseau Anderson, Associate Professor in the Secondary Education Program Department of Instruction and Curriculum Leadership University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee In this article, the author…
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“JewAsian” is a qualitative examination of the intersection of race, religion, and ethnicity in the increasing number of households that are Jewish American and Asian American.
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My mixed-race sons look white, but that doesn’t mean racism stays away She Knows 2016-07-09 Fahmida Rashid My mixed-race sons can ‘pass’ for white, and that creates its own pile of issues The first time was when Jake was in kindergarten. He was showing off the drawing of our family: father, mother, baby brother and…