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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Growing Up Half Asian American: Curse or Gift? Asian Fortune: your source for all things asian american 2014-01-15 Tamara Treichel In this era of globalization and liberalization, being – and identifying as – biracial is becoming increasingly common. Yet only a few decades ago, unions between the races which may lead to biracial offspring were…
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Choate Celebrates MLK Day Choate Rosemary Hall 333 Christian Street Wallingford, Connecticut 06492 (203) 697-2000 Friday, 2014-01-17, 19:30 EST (Local Time) Photo: Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni “One Drop of Love,” a multimedia solo performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, will be presented on Friday, January 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Arts Center. This performance tells the…
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Call for Biracial/Racial Ambiguity Person Perception Data The Stigma, Health, and Close Relationships Lab Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 2014-01-15 The The Stigma, Health, and Close Relationships Lab is currently conducting a systematic review of research on person construal and evaluation of biracial/mixed-race and/or racially ambiguous targets. We would like to include unpublished,…
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In 2007, Joseph Boyden, author of the bestselling novel Three Day Road and 2008 Giller Prize winner for Through Black Spruce, was invited by the Canadian Literature Centre | Centre de littérature canadienne to deliver the inaugural Henry Kreisel Lecture at the University of Alberta.
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Passing Strange The New York Times 2007-10-21 Joyce Johnson In 1855, Henry Broyard, a young white New Orleans carpenter, decided to pass as black in order to be legally entitled to marry Marie Pauline Bonée, the well-educated daughter of colored refugees from Haiti, who was about to have his child; their marriage license describes them…
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What Comes Naturally: A Racially Inclusive Look at Miscegenation Law Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 31, Number 3, 2010 pages 15-21 DOI: 10.1353/fro.2010.0020 Jacki Thompson Rand, Professor of History; American Indian and Native Studies University of Iowa In What Comes Naturally Peggy Pascoe interrogates the U.S. racial regime through a study of civil…
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Dr. Eliot Favors Racial Dead Line The New York Times 1909-03-15 page 3 Declares the South’s Future Depends On the Whites Preserving Their Integrity MISQUOTED IN INTERVIEW Did Not Say That Irish and Italians Furnished Race Problem for North Like Negroes In South ATLANTA, Ga., March 14.—Sharply denying that he had been taken to task…
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English 4640G: Construction of Racial Identity in Post Civil War America Huron University College at Western University London, Ontario, Canada Winter 2013 Neil Brooks, Associate Professor, English Course Description: Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination argues that the canonical American literary tradition can only be understood after recognizing the presence…
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477A Race Mixing in U.S.A. History California State University, Fullerton 2013-2015 History of racial mixing in the United States. Experiences of interracial families and especially their mixed race progeny. Complicates understanding of racial categories and hierarchies over time.
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Red, White, and Black: A Personal Essay on Interracial Marriage Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 29, Numbers 2 & 3, 2008 pages 51-58 DOI: 10.1353/fro.0.0021 Jacki Thompson Rand, Professor of History; American Indian and Native Studies University of Iowa About a month before my father died, a long-held question spilled out of my…