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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Freedom’s Child: The Life of a Confederate General’s Black Daughter Algonquin Books 1998 288 pages ISBN: 9781565121867 Carrie Allen McCray (1913-2008) When Carrie Allen McCray was a child, she was afraid to ask about the framed photograph of a white man on her mother’s dresser. Years later she learned that he was her grandfather, a…
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With DNA Testing, Suddenly They Are Family The New York Times 2011-01-24 Rachel L. Swarns ST. LOUIS — Growing up, Khrys Vaughan always believed that she had inherited her looks and mannerisms from her father, and that her appreciation for tradition and old-fashioned gentility stemmed from her parents’ Southern roots. But those facets of her…
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Developing identity formation and self-concept in preschool-aged biracial children Early Child Development and Care Volume 111, Issue 1, 1995 (Special Issue: Focus on Caregivers) pages 141-152 DOI: 10.1080/0300443951110110 Johnetta Wade Morrison, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of Missouri, Columbia Eleven mothers of biracial preschool-aged children were interviewed regarding identity formation, self-concept development,…
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Racial Socialization in Cross-Racial Families Journal of Black Psychology Published Online: 2011-08-03 DOI: 10.1177/0095798411416457 Cyndy R. Snyder University of California, Berkeley The purpose of this study was to investigate how multiracial people of African descent experience racism in schools and to understand how their parents or guardians prepare them to cope with incidents of racism…
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Don’t box us in Focus Rutgers University 2008-04-09 Ashanti M. Alvarez Prompted by Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy, The New York Times recently tackled the issue of mixed-race Americans, and did so by profiling a group of students from Rutgers. I read with interest, as I myself am mixed. Common constructs abound in this article,…
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African and American: The Contact of Negro and Indian Science Magazine Volume 17, Number 419 (1891-02-13) pages 85-90 DOI: 10.1126/science.ns-17.419.85 The history of the negro on the continent of America has been studied from various points of view, but id every instance with regard alone to his contact with the white race. It must be,…
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Conversation Of The Week XXII: Mixed-Race Students and The College Experience USARiseUp 2011-04-18 Amy O’Loughlin In January, The New York Times published “Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above,” a provocative and widely circulated article about college students of mixed racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as the rise in population…
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Identity Politics in the Public Realm: Bringing Institutions Back In University of British Columbia Press 2011-10-11 308 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780774820813 Edited by: Avigail Eisenberg, Professor of Political Science University of Victoria Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy Queen’s University In an age of multiculturalism and identity politics, many minority groups seek some…
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Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses Cambridge University Press January 2002 224 pages Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521004275 Hardback ISBN: 9780521808231 eBook ISBN: 9780511029325 DOI: 10.2277/0521004276 Edited by: David I. Kertzer, Dupee University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology & Italian Studies Brown University…