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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Picking Sides: An Exploratory Documentary on Multiraciality Arizona State University December 2015 Amanda Catherine Cavazos Multiracial individuals are the fastest growing demographic group in the United States. In order to explore and gain insight into how mixed-race individuals understand and negotiate their identity, this project includes a documentary of compiled interviews with multiracial individuals. These…
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The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution University of North Carolina Press June 2016 Approx. 640 pages 21 halftones, 1 figs., 7 maps, 33 tables, notes, index 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4696-2663-5 Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Robert G. Parkinson, Assistant Professor…
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A DNA Test Won’t Explain Elizabeth Warren’s Ancestry Slate 2016-06-29 Matt Miller You’re not 28 percent Finnish, either. Our genes dictate certain things about us, but ethnicity is not derived from a single gene. Scott Brown, the former Massachusetts senator who lost to Elizabeth Warren in the 2012 election, has decided to dredge up old…
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The Pain of Passing Reviews in American History Volume 44, Number 2, June 2016 pages 264-269 DOI: 10.1353/rah.2016.0028 Renee Romano, Professor of History, Africana Studies, and Comparative American Studies Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Allyson Hobbs. A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. 382 pp. Figures,…
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Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History Fulcrum Publishing May 2014 176 pages 8 X 10 Paperback ISBN: 9781938486296 Joel Christian Gill Strange Fruit Volume I is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity. Each of the nine illustrated chapters chronicles…
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Essence Fest: How Prince helped Misty Copeland discover artistic freedom The New Orleans Times-Picayune 2016-07-02 Chelsea Brasted, Lifestyle and Culture Reporter Misty Copeland recounted her own Prince tribute Saturday (July 2) during an Essence Fest weekend full of them. But for the first African American woman to be named principal dancer at the American Ballet…