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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Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour’s “The Mulatto” Southern Spaces An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the American South and their global connections 2007-08-28 Ed Piacentino, Professor of English High Point University, High Point, North Carolina This essay examines Victor Séjour’s “The Mulatto” (1837), a short story acknowledged as the…
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Multiracial and Adopted Asians Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education Volume 3, Number 2 (Fall 2001) Theme: Interracial and Mixed-racial Relationships and Families C. N. Le, Senior Lecturer Professor University of Massachusetts, Amherst In the 1980s Asian Americans became the fastest growing racial/ethnic group in the United States in terms of percentage growth. As part of…
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The struggle for selfhood in multiracial adolescents: Identify formation in Asian-White mixed race youth Widener University, Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology May 2008 184 pages Publication Number: AAT 3405230 ISBN: 9781109705614 Leilani Salvo Crane A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology College of Arts and Sciences Widener University In…
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School counselors’ perceptions of biracial students’ functioning Columbia University September 2010 178 pages Publication Number: AAT 3400544 ISBN: 9781109673753 Mai Margaret Kindaichi Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy under the Executive Committee of The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Columbia University The number of biracial school-aged…
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West Meets East: Nineteenth-Century Southern Dialogues on Mixture, Race, Gender, and Nation The Mississippi Quarterly Volume 56, Number 4 (Fall 2003) Suzanne Bost, Associate Professor of English Loyola University When I was growing up in the Eastern half of the United States, American history was presented to me in neatly binary terms: Cowboys and Indians,…
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The Physical Form of Mississippi Negroes American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 16, Issue 2 (October/December 1931) pages 193–201 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330160213 Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963), Professor of Anthropology and African Studies Northwestern University Vivian K. Cameron Harriet Smith During the years 1923 to 1927, research was carried on in an attempt to investigate the physical…
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Mixed: A Mixed Heritage Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-11-09 Nicholas Greitzer America has always been considered a melting pot – a melting pot of ideas, of ethnicities, of religions, of experiences and of people. In the 2000 census, for example, this miscegenation resulted in more than 6.8 million Americans self-identifying as multiracial.…
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Rachel Knight: Slave, White Man’s Mistress and Mother to a Movement Johnathon Odell: Discovering Our Stories 2010-09-20 John Odell Rachel’s Children I can’t help but think of the Old Testament Abraham when I hear stories about Newt Knight. Both men sired children by a wife and a slave. In Newt’s case it was Serena and…