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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Millions of Americans changed their racial or ethnic identity from one census to the next Pew Research Center 2014-05-05 D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer Social & Demographic Trends Project Millions of Americans counted in the 2000 census changed their race or Hispanic-origin categories when they filled out their 2010 census forms, according to new research…
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Mexican Americans and the Question of Race University of Texas Press March 2014 184 pages 3 charts, 1 maps, 1 tables 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-292-75401-0 Julie A. Dowling, Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This groundbreaking and timely study explores how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants develop their racial ideologies…
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Defining Mixed Race Feminism Musings of a Mixed Race Feminist: Random diatribes from a mixed race feminist scholar. 2014-05-16 Donna J. Nicol, Associate Professor Women & Gender Studies California State University, Fullerton …Question of the Day: What is mixed race feminism? Good question given mixed race and gender issues aren’t often brought in conversation together even…
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Allyson Hobbs: Racial Passing and African American Family Life in Jim Crow America The Ethics@noon Series The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society Stanford University 2011-02-04 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University On February 4th, 2011 Allyson Hobbs discussed the Jim Crow era as a watershed in the history of racial passing.…
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One Drop of Love – Lounge Theater 1, Los Angeles Plays 411 May 2014 Saturday, 2014-05-31 20:30 PDT (Local Time) Lounge Theatre 1 6201 Santa Monica Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90038 How does our belief in ‘race’ affect our most intimate relationships? One Drop of Love is a multimedia solo performance exploring family, race, love,…
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More Hispanics Declaring Themselves White The New York Times 2014-05-21 Nate Cohn Hispanics are often described as driving up the nonwhite share of the population. But a new study of census forms finds that more Hispanics are identifying as white. An estimated net 1.2 million Americans of the 35 million Americans identified in 2000 as…
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Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia by Eva Sheppard Wolf (review) [Padraig Riley] Civil War History Volume 60, Number 2, June 2014 pages 199-201 DOI: 10.1353/cwh.2014.0041 Padraig Riley, Assistant Professor of History Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Wolf, Eva Sheppard, Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in…