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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OMB’s Preliminary Recommendation & an IV Commentary Interracial Voice [1995-2003] July 1997 Charles Michael Byrd The Office of Management and Budget announced last Wednesday (07-09-97) that Americans could choose more than one racial category on Census and other federal forms but would have no new “multiracial” box to check under new rules the agency proposed.…
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Why the multiracial community must march on July 20! Interracial Voice [1995-2003] July 1996 Charles Michael Byrd Any group needs and deserves to know why someone makes a particular decision, especially when that person asks them to act upon that decision, to contribute and participate. So, too, you need to understand the reasons behind the…
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Aisha Sabatini Sloan Trop 2013-05-14 Zoe Ruiz, Saturday Editor for The Rumpus and staff member of FOUND In The Fluency of Light, Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s essays read like meditations on themes of identity, race, and family. Her writing is sharp—one might say spare—and her descriptions, clear and beautiful. Her essays are a guide that help…
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Bicultural Identity Negotiation, Conflicts, and Intergroup Communication Strategies Journal of Intercultural Communication Research Volume 42, Issue 2, 2013 pages 112-134 DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2013.785973 Adrian Toomey California State University, Fullerton Tenzin Dorjee, Assistant Professor of Human Communications Studies California State University, Fullerton Stella Ting-Toomey, Professor of Human Communications Studies California State University, Fullerton This qualitative study explores…
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Disability and Passing: Blurring the Lines of Identity Temple University Press May 2013 218 pages 5.5 x 8.25; 1 halftone Paper EAN: 978-1-43990-980-5 Cloth EAN: 978-1-43990-979-9 eBook EAN: 978-1-43990-981-2 Edited by: Jeffrey A. Brune, Assistant Professor of History Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. Daniel J. Wilson, Professor of History Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania Passing—an act usually…
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I’m a kosher burrito, says new mixed-race LA mayor The Jewish Chronicle Online London, England 2013-05-30 Tom Tugend Eric Garcetti, the first Jewish mayor elected by Los Angeles voters, jokingly refers to himself as a “kosher burrito”, the latter word referring to a popular Mexican dish. The son of a Jewish mother and a father…
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This Is The Mixed-Race Cheerios Ad All The Idiots Are Complaining About Business Insider Advertising 2013-05-30 Judith Grey A new commercial for Cheerios featuring a mixed-race family has become a target for idiots on the internet. The anodyne spot features a Caucasian mother, an African-American father and their biracial daughter, but contains no overt messaging,…