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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Rights of passage – the coming of the ‘wild west’ Constructs of identity and their effects upon Indigenous people Counselling, Psychotherapy, and Health Volume 3, Issue 2 (2007), Indigenous Special Issue pages 39-45 Michael Red Shirt Semchison M.Ed.Studies; Gr.Cert.Ed.[HE] University of Queensland, Australia Introduction “We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful…
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The Cuffee Collaboration: CELS students, faculty reach out to help charter school The College of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Rhode Island CELS News Site 2009-10-27 Rudi Hempe, CELS News Editor Spread over two inner city locations, one a former maintenance garage and the other one rented, the Paul Cuffee School in Providence is…
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In “Transatlantic Spectacles of Race,” Kimberly Manganelli argues that the tragic mulatta and tragic muse, who have heretofore been read separately, must be understood as two sides of the same phenomenon. In both cases, the eroticized and racialized female body is put on public display, as a highly enticing commodity in the nineteenth-century marketplace.
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ENGLISH 56N: Mixed Race in the New Millennium: Crossings of Kin, Culture and Faith (Stanford Introductory Seminar) Stanford University Winter Quarter, 2011-2012 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University Our course examines how literature, theater, graphic art and popular culture shape…
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Mixed in America: Race, Religion, and Memoir (RELI 280, AFAN 282, or AMST 242) Wesleyan University Spring 2012 Elizabeth McAlister, Associate Professor of Religion This course examines the history of “mixed-race” and “interfaith” identities in America. Using the genre of the memoir as a focusing lens, we will look at the various ways that Americans…
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Hybrid Identities, Authentic Selves (SS-0217) Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts Spring Term 2011 Kimberly Chang, Associate Professor of Cultural Psychology This course explores two related concepts—hybridity and authenticity—that underlie many present-day struggles over cultural identity and representation. The former calls attention to the multiplicity of social identities that vie for recognition within a person, while the…
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This essay is a response to an article recently published by Will South titled “A Missing Question Mark: The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner” in the journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. Tanner was the foremost African American artist of the late 19th century. He has emerged as an exemplar of Black achievement in the arts and is…
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The Blackfoot Tribe of the Midsouth American Society of Ethnohistory Conference “Blackfoot, Redbones, Brass Ankles and Pied Noir: Colorful Identities, Creative Strategies American Society of Ethnohistory conference” Santa Fe, New Mexico 2005-11-18 through 2005-11-20 2005-11-19 Carol A. Morrow, Professor of Anthropology Southeast Missouri State University Over the years, I have had a number of African-American…
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Asians in S.A. claim multiracial identity San Antonio Express-News 2011-06-26 Elaine Ayala and Kelly Guckian San Antonio’s Asian residents are more likely to self-identify as being of more than one race or ethnicity than their U.S. and Texas counterparts, according to new 2010 Census data. The trend indicates not only intermarriage with whites and Hispanics since…