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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Category: United States
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The Hunter and the Farmer: Jean Toomer’s Depression-Era Masculinist Writings AmeriQuests Volume 6, Number 1 (2008) Anastasia C. Curwood, Visiting Fellow James Weldon Johnson Institute for Race and Difference Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia In 1937, after he had written the novel Cane, left the African-American culture of Harlem, studied under the mystic Georges Gurdjieff in…
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“Split At The Root”: The Reformation of The Mulatto Hero/Heroine AmeriQuests (Online) Vanderbilt University Volume 6, Number 1 2008-11-18 Tia L. Gafford, Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies Mercer University Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy offers a valuable insight on the development of a holistic and natural model for patriarchy in the 19th…
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What Does the Education Dept. Know About Race? The Chronicle of Higher Education 2014-04-28 Johnah Newman, Database Reporter Our post last week on minority enrollment and diversity at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor sparked a lively debate in the comments section about demographic data and diversity. “I must admit that I am scratching…
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Is Race/Ethnicity Related to Presence or Severity of Pain in Colorectal and Lung Cancer? Journal of Pain and Symptom Management Published online: 2014-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.02.005 Kathryn A. Martinez, PhD, MPH, Postdoctoral Fellow CanSORT (Cancer Surveillance & Outcomes Research Team) Ann Arbor VA Health Services Research & Development Center, University of Michgan, Ann Arbor Claire F.…
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Opinion: Supreme Court ruling upholds America’s mixed view Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-04-24 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan (CNN) — I didn’t expect to find the specter of the mixed-race person making an appearance in Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision that upheld…
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General Mills CEO: Doubling down on mixed-race commercial was ‘right thing’ to do Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal 2014-04-22 Nick Halter, Staff Reporter General Mills Inc. CEO Ken Powell told a crowd of minority business owners Tuesday that his company didn’t give into racist hate mail when it doubled down on a Cheerios commercial that featured…
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Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country University of Oklahoma Press 1996 292 pages 6 x 9 in. Paperback ISBN: 9780806128139 Jennifer S.H. Brown, Professor of History University of Winnipeg For two centuries (1670-1870), English, Scottish, and Canadian fur traders voyaged the myriad waterways of Rupert’s Land, the vast territory charted to…
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Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History University of Oklahoma Press 2012 520 pages Illustrations: 12 B&W Illus., 8 Maps, 16 Tables 6.125 x 9.25 in Paperback ISBN: 9780806144870 Edited by: Nicole St-Onge, Professor of History University of Ottawa Carolyn Podruchny, Associate Professor of History York University, Toronto Brenda Macdougall, Associate Professor of…