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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FYS 102N – Exploring Mixed Identities University of Maryland, Baltimore County Honors College Summer 2012 Jessica Guzman-Rea The aim of this course is to move beyond prevalent monoracial discourses by examining identities and experiences from a mixed race/mixed ethnicity perspective. This course explores many topics such as the history of racialization, processes of othering, acceptance…
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AFR 108: What Passes for Freedom?: Mixed-Race Figures in U.S. Culture Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts Spring 2013 Cross Listed as AMST107, ENGL108 Vincent J. Schleitwiler, Assistant Professor of English The idea of a distinct category of individuals identified as “biracial,” “multiracial,” or “mixed-race” has become increasingly prominent over the past few decades, despite the inescapable…
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n this episode Al Letson and guest producer Lu Olkowski visit a tiny town [East Jackson/Waverly] in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio where, for a century, residents have shared the common bond of identifying as African-American despite the fact that they look white. Racial lines have been blurred to invisibility, and people inside the same…
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Life Stories, Local Places, and the Networks of Free Women of Color in Early North America 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 72 Friday, 2013-01-04: 08:30-10:00 CST (Local Time) Preservation Hall, Studio 7 (New Orleans Marriott) Chair: Daina Ramey Berry, University of Texas, Austin Papers:…
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Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States Duke University Press 2009 408 pages 19 photographs Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4440-7 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4426-1 Micol Seigel, Associate Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies Indiana University In Uneven Encounters, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States…
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American Voters Are Getting All Mixed Up Dog Park: Media Unleased 2012-11-20 Leighton Woodhouse, Founding Partner As anybody with a TV, radio or newspaper subscription can affirm, the big story coming out of the 2012 election is the long feared/eagerly awaited arrival of the Latino Vote as a national political force capable of deciding a…
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Nation Drag: Uses of the Exotic The Journal of Transnational American Studies ISSN 1940-0764 Volume 1, Issue 1 (2009) Micol Seigel, Associate Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies Indiana University In Uneven Encounters, the forthcoming book from which this article is excerpted, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the…
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Negotiating Racial and Ethnic Lines in the Borderlands: Mixed Peoples in Transitional North America 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 108 Friday, 2013-01-04, 10:30-12:00 CST (Local Time) Cornet Room (Sheraton New Orleans) Chair: Stephen Aron, University of California, Los Angeles Papers: “‘I Do Not Know…
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The Process of Forming a Multiracial Identity for Persons of Three or More Races Alliant International University, San Diego, California 2012 197 pages Publication Number: AAT 3524119 ISBN: 9781267582935 Maria Reyna Fowlks A PsyD Clinical Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University San Diego In Partial…