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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Category: United States
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The present writer proposes to profit by the suggestion of the author of of “Miscegenation” and coin another word, long needed. It is subgenation, from sub, lower, and generatus and genus, a race born or created lower than another; i.e., the natural or normal relation of an inferior to a superior race.
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Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity: Celtic Soul Brothers Routledge 2012-07-11 234 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-65367-1 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-80189-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-203-85989-6 Lauren Onkey, Vice President of Education and Public Programs Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Cleveland, Ohio Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between…
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In the United States miscegenation is not merely a subject of literature and popular culture. It is in many ways the foundation of contemporary imaginary community. “The Romance of Race” examines the role of minority women writers and reformers in the creation of our modern American multiculturalism.
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Quicksand and Passing Rutgers University Press 1986 246 pages Paper ISBN: 0-8135-1170-4 Nella Larsen (1891-1964) Edited by Deborah E. McDowell, Alice Griffin Professor of English University of Virginia Nella Larsen’s novels Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) document the historical realities of Harlem in the 1920s and shed a bright light on the social world of…
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Rutgers Group Brings Students Together to Explore the Complexities of Being Multiracial Focus Rutgers University News September 2012 Carrie Stetler By 2050, one in five Americans is likely to be multiracial It’s a question Joan Gan hears a lot: “What are you?” She instantly knows what it means. Her father is Chinese and her mother…
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Mixed-race teen in the middle: who will she choose? Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida 2012-09-23 Leonora LaPeter Anton, Times Staff Writer Her dark eyes scanned the fluorescent-lit lunchroom, locking onto her friends in the center of the chaos. Her thoughts sprayed in many directions: the upcoming eighth-grade formal, a surprisingly bad grade she recently…