Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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When Krystal Sital’s grandfather Shiva Singh suffers a cerebral hemorrhage, her grandmother Rebecca, after 53 years of marriage, reacts with calm indifference. Sital, who reveres her tall, strong and generous grandfather, with his white hair and “skin the color of a sapphire sky,” spends much of her suspenseful memoir, “Secrets We Kept: Three Women of…
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An eloquent new Caribbean literary voice reveals the hidden trauma and fierce resilience of one Trinidadian family.
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The Recursive Outcomes of the Multiracial Movement and the End of American Racial Categories Studies in American Political Development Volume 31, Issue 1 (April 2017) pages 88-107 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X17000074 Kim M. Williams, Associate Professor of Political Science Portland State University, Portland, Oregon After a protracted national discussion about racial mixture in the early 1990s, the…
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Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai‘i’s myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics.
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A woman discovers racial secrets in her family history.
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The Escape centers on the attempted sexual violation of a slave and involves many characters of mixed race, through which Brown commented on such themes as moral decay, white racism, and black self-determination. Rich in action and faithful in dialect, it raises issues relating not only to race but also to gender by including concepts…
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) rejected a call this week by a Massachusetts newspaper to take a DNA test to prove her Native American heritage, saying it is a cherished piece of family lore and noting that she has never used it to get ahead.
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Crossing old boundaries to create new identities
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Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing #ownvoices novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth.
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Throughout his oeuvre, Frank Yerby works to deconstruct myths of the Old South and historical misinformation. Along with these goals, he also dismantles the dichotomy of Black and White; instead, he populates his works with individuals and scenes that defy a simplistic characterization.