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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Passing the Line Karl Jacoby 2012-12-20 Karl Jacoby, Professor of History Columbia University, New York, New York Who was Guillermo Eliseo? Such was the question that any number of people asked themselves during the Gilded Age as this enigmatic figure flitted in and out of an astonishing array of the era’s most noteworthy events—scandalous trials,…
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Not Excluded From Analyses: Ethnic and Racial Meanings and Identification Among Multiethnic/Racial Early Adolescents Journal of Adolescent Research Volume 30, Number 2 (March 2015) pages 143-179 DOI: 10.1177/0743558414560626 Cari Gillen-O’Neel, Assistant Professor of Psychology Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota Rashmita S. Mistry, Associate Professor of Education University of California, Los Angeles Christia Spears Brown, Assistant…
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Growing up, Lincoln Diuguid dreamed of becoming a scientist. He shoveled coal and snow to earn room and board at college. He couldn’t afford enough to eat and lost weight. His father hocked a life insurance policy to pay for a semester at graduate school.
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Q&A with Carlos E. Cortés, author of “Rose Hill” Heyday 2012-03-21 A poignant memoirist, Carlos E. Cortés brings his past to life in Rose Hill: An Intermarriage before its Time, portraying multiracial relationships and the impact they had on the development of his identity. Sometimes hilarious and at times tragic, this powerful narrative takes the…
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Census Bureau may count Arab-Americans for the first time in 2020 PBS NewsHour Public Broadcasting System 2015-01-30 Jeff Karoub, Reporter The Associated Press DETROIT — The federal government is considering allowing those of Middle Eastern and North African descent to identify as such on the next 10-year Census, which could give Arab-Americans and other affected…
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Discovering Early California Afro-Latino Presence Heyday November 2010 24 pages Paperback, 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-1-59714-145-1 Damany M. Fisher, Professor of History and Political Science Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, California California’s Afro-Latino heritage Although it is not generally apparent from paintings and other depictions of early California, many members of the pioneering Anza expeditions…
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EIHS Lecture: “Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Slave Law and the History of Women in Slavery” Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies University of Michigan 1014 Tisch Hall 435 South State Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1003 2015-02-05, 16:00-18:00 CST (Local Time) Jennifer L. Morgan, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, History New York University In 1662, legislators in…
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An Interview with Poet Brian Komei Dempster Hyphen: Asian America Unabridged 2015-02-02 Jeffrey Thomas Leong, San Francisco Bay Area poet; 2014 graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing program in poetry I first met Brian Komei Dempster in Winter 2000 as a student in his Kearny Street Workshop writing class, held…
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era [Tejada Review] Washington Independent Review of Books 2015-01-15 Susan Tejada When a Crescent City toddler goes missing, the tensions of the post-Civil War South are exposed. Ross, Michael A., The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the…