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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Multiracial Identity Development Arlington Public Schools Clarendon Education Center 2801 Clarendon Boulevard, Suite 308 Arlington, Virginia 2011-11-30, 10:00-12:00 EST (Local Time) Have you ever wondered about how children from multiracial backgrounds develop their racial identity? Please join us in welcoming Dr. Ricia Weiner, Ms. Eleanor Lewis, and Ms. Veronica Sanjines, School Psychologists, who will share…
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The Other Loving: Uncovering The Federal Government’s Racial Regulation of Marriage New York University Law Review Volume 86, Number 5 (November 2011) pages 1361-1443 Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of Law University of California, Davis This Article seeks to fill a gap in legal history. The traditional narrative of the history of the American racial regulation…
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Critical Legal Theorizing, Rhetorical Intersectionalities, and the Multiple Transgressions of the “Tragic Mulatta,” Anastasie Desarzant Women’s Studies in Communication Volume 27, Issue 2, 2004 pages 119-148 DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2004.10162470 Marouf Hasian Jr., Professor of Communation University of Utah This essay provides a critical legal analysis of Anastasie Desarzant’s defamation case. The author argues that the use…
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Full Blood, Mixed Blood, Generic, and Ersatz: The Problem of Indian Identity Arizona and the West Volume 27, Number 4 (Winter, 1985) pages 309-326 William T. Hagan, Professor Emeritus of History State University of New York, Fredonia University of Oklahoma One of the most perplexing problems confronting American Indians today is that of identity. Who…
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The Near-White Female in Frances Ellen Harper’s Iola Leroy Phylon (1960-) Volume 45, Number 4 (4th Quarter, 1984) pages 314-322 Vashti Lewis During the antebellum years, the near-white black character played a central role in the American novel. In fact, almost all of the novels of that period which feature near-white characters are antislavery tracts.…
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ENGL 487: The Mulatto in American Fiction Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio Fall 2004 Jené Schoenfeld, Assistant Professor of English The mulatto balances precariously on the razor-thin edge of the color line between black and white. In the antebellum era, the mulatto’s proximity to whiteness made the mulatto an attractive object for Abolitionist sympathy. In the…
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Redefining their races: More students choosing to identify as mixed The Western Front Western Washington University Bellingham, Washington 2011-11-18 Casey Malloy When Western Washington University junior Emily Goronkin applied to the university three years ago, she came to a point in the application at which she was asked for her racial identity. She checked Hispanic…
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The Mulatto in American Fiction Phylon (1940-1956) Volume 6, Number 1 (1st Quarter, 1945) pages 78-82 Penelope Bullock In its heterogenous population and the individualistic traits of its various inhabitants the United States possesses a reservoir teeming with literary potentiality. Throughout the years, the American writer has tapped these natural resources to bring forth products…
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A critical ethnography of biracial elementary teachers: Biracial identity development and its effect on teaching practices and racism prevention Alliant International University, San Diego 2010 480 pages Publication Number: AAT 3428767 ISBN: 9781124269009 Jon E. Kingsbury A Dissertation Presented to the Graduate Faculty of the Hufstedler School of Education Alliant International University In Partial Fulfillment…