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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Les Cenelles Centenary College of Louisiana Press / Editions Tintamarre January 2003 208 pages ISBN: 0-9723258-9-1 Armand Lanusse The text is in French. With few exceptions, the poets of Les Cenelles–the very first collection of poetry by Creoles of color–do not directly address their precarious situation in a South that was ever increasingly hostile to…
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Racial Identity Development and Psychological Adjustment in Biracial Individuals of Minority/Minority Racial Group Descent Marquette University Spring 2011 Kizzie Paule Walker A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Psychology in partial fulfillment of the requirments for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Based on the theoretical framework of symbolic interactionism and race as a social…
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Shades of gray: Black-white multiracialism in contemporary American literature York University (Canada) 2011 294 pages Publication Number: AAT NR71345 ISBN: 9780494713457 Molly Littlewood McKibbin A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies in English in partial fulfillment of the requirments for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The American construction of whiteness and blackness…
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The one-drop aesthetic: How literary formalism reinvented race in the United States Harvard University 2009 233 pages Publication Number: AAT 3365201 ISBN: 9781109254617 Kevin Brian Birmingham A dissertation presented by Kevin Brian Birmingham to The Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of…
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Passing for Black: Sermon Unitarian Church of Norfolk Norfolk, Virginia 2010-08-29 Dr. Walter Skip Earl OPENING WORDS Forty-seven years ago yesterday, on August 28, 1963, before a huge crowd of African and other Americans gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said: In a sense, we’ve come to our nation’s…
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Re-articulating the New Mestiza Journal of International Women’s Studies Vol 12, #2 (March 2011) Special Issue: Winning and Short-listed Entries from the 2009 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association Annual Student Essay Competition pages 61-74 Zalfa Feghali University of Nottingham This essay provides an overview, critique, and the beginning of a refiguration of Gloria Anzaldúa’s theorization…
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Mistaken identity The Boston Globe 2005-02-20 Holly Jackson What if a novelist celebrated as a pioneer of African-American women’s literature turned out not to be black at all? IN THE LATE 1980s, scholars of African-American studies carried out the most impressive American literary recovery project to date, excavating and reprinting the works of numerous unjustly…
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Plessy and Ferguson unveil plaque today marking their ancestors’ actions New Orleans Times-Picayune 2009-02-11 Katy Reckdahl Today, Plessy versus Ferguson becomes Plessy and Ferguson, when descendants of opposing parties in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court segregation case stand together to unveil a plaque at the former site of the Press Street Railroad Yards. Standing behind…
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Hidden in plain sight: defying juridical racialization in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Volume 1, Issue 4 (2004) Pages 313-334 DOI: 10.1080/1479142042000270458 Nadine Ehlers, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Georgetown University This article examines the intersectionality of law and race to argue that law, in its broadest understanding, has played a…