Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Patriot Prayer’s leader is half-Japanese. Black and brown faces march with the Proud Boys. Is the future of hate multicultural?
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Paula Wright, a seventh-generation descendant of an interracial couple, has documented over 500 images that chronicle her family’s history.
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In Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple and living in the rural American West.
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Race Experts: Sculpture, Anthropology, and the American Public in Malvina Hoffman’s Races of Mankind
In “Race Experts” Linda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in “The Races of Mankind” series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930.
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David Blight has written the definitive biography of Frederick Douglass. With extraordinary detail he illuminates the complexities of Douglass’s life and career and paints a powerful portrait of one of the most important American voices of the 19th century.
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Examines how the media influenced ideas of race and beauty among African American women from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II.
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Puerto Ricans — the racially mixed descendants of Native Americans, European colonizers and African slaves — defy the binary racial categorization embedded in U.S. society. For most, defining themselves by race is a daunting task that often ends in defiantly choosing “neither,” “other” or “mixed.” Some embrace the labels Hispanic, Latinx, or “brown” as their…
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In this groundbreaking discussion, Ed Morales explains how Latinx political identities are tied to a long Latin American history of mestizaje—“mixedness” or “hybridity”—and that this border thinking is both a key to understanding bilingual, bicultural Latin cultures and politics and a challenge to America’s infamously black–white racial regime.
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“We are beautiful because of our blackness, not in spite of it.”