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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Miscegenation and Race: A Roundtable on Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally [A Tribute] Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 31, Number 3, 2010 pages 1-5 E-ISSN: 1536-0334, Print ISSN: 0160-9009 Estelle B. Freedman, Edgar E. Robinson Professor of History Stanford University The following papers pay tribute to Peggy Pascoe’s [1954-2010] extraordinary book What Comes Naturally:…
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4203W-01 – Racial Passing, Masquerade, and Transformation in African American Literature, Law, Film, and Culture University of Connecticut Fall 2010 Martha Cutter, Associate Professor of English What is “race”? What is “whiteness”? What is “blackness”? What does it mean to be “mixed-race” or “multi-racial” in the US? This course will examine what racial passing—people who…
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“Whiteness in the Novels of Charles W. Chesnutt” is the first study to focus exclusively on Chesnutt’s novels. Examining the three published in Chesnutt’s lifetime—”The House Behind the Cedars,” “The Marrow of Tradition,” and “The Colonel’s Dream”—as well as his posthumously published novels, this study explores the dilemma of a black writer who wrote primarily…
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World Premiere of “Family Portrait in Black and White” at 2011 Sundance Film Festival Family Portrait in Black and White 2011 Interfilm Productions, Inc. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Directed by: Julia Ivanova Producted by Boris Ivanov OLGA NENYA is a foster mother to SIXTEEN BLACK ORPHANS in Ukraine—where 99.9% of the population is white and…
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American Mixed-Race Literature: Cultural History, Precursors, Identities, and Forms of Expression Purdue University 2004 116 pages Publication Number: AAT 3166693 ISBN: 9780542022999 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjust Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California This dissertation focuses on recent instances of mixed race literature in American culture such as Danzy Senna’s novel Caucasia, Rebecca…
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Biracial Youth and Families in Therapy: Issues and Interventions Journal of Marital and Family Therapy Volume 26, Issue 3 (July 2000) pages 305–315 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2000.tb00300.x Stephanie Milan, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Connecticut Margaret K. Keiley, Professor Director of Clinical Research Center for Children, Youth, and Families Auburn University Empirical research and clinical resources…