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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A Mixed Race Take On What It Means To Be ‘Free’ Tell Me More National Public Radio 2011-06-24 NPR Staff A lonely young New Yorker finds a puppy while jogging. A middle class couple tries navigating the treacherous waters of admission to a sought-after preschool. A new mother grows jealous of the chic and thin…
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White women’s complicity and the taboo: Faulkner’s layered critique of the “miscegenation complex” Women’s Studies Volume 22, Issue 4 (1993) pages 497-506 DOI: 10.1080/00497878.1993.9978998 Karen M. Andrews Kobe College, Japan In Faulkner’s social milieu, the proscription against miscegenation between white women and black men was so deeply ingrained as to be “common sense.” White male…
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Why this Supreme Court could be the best hope for gay-marriage advocates The Washington Post 2011-06-24 Justin Driver, Assistant Professor of Law University of Texas, Austin Eight years ago Sunday, the Supreme Court handed down a significant victory for gay equality when it declared anti-sodomy laws unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas. In response, Justice Antonin…
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Racial mixture and civil war: The histories of the U.S. South and Mexico in the novels of William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes Michigan State University 2008 266 pages Publication Number: AAT 3331903 ISBN: 9780549837800 Emron Lee Esplin, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia A Dissertation Submitted to Michigan State…
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This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of ‘passing’. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction.
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A Health Survey of the Seminole Indians Yale Journal Biology and Medicine Volume 6, Number 2 (December 1933) pages 155–177 H. Hamlin Among the numerous tribes of Indians living in Oklahoma the Seminoles offer some interesting phenomena for study which may contribute information on the subject of race mixture and its relationship to environment and…
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Mixed Race: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2011-06-19 Velina Hasu Houston Recently I was honored with a Loving Award from the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival (held June 11-12 at the Japanese American National Museum). The award and the meaning behind it has caused me to reflect on…