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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Neither Black nor White: The Saga of an American Family The New World Africa Press 2006-03-03 252 pages 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ISBN-10: 0976876124; ISBN-13: 978-0976876120 Joseph E. Holloway, Professor of Pan African Studies California State University, Northridge Historical novel, which traces the history of the Hadnot family from Gloucester, England in 1585…
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Hollywood’s Whiteout The New York Times 2011-02-11 Manohla Dargis A. O. Scott CRAMMED into this year’s field of 10 best picture Oscar nominees are British aristocrats, Volvo-driving Los Angeles lesbians, a flock of swans, a gaggle of Harvard computer geeks, clans of Massachusetts fighters and Missouri meth dealers, as well as 19th-century bounty hunters, dream…
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Miscegenation and competing definitions of race in twentieth-century Louisiana Journal of Southern History Volume 71, Number 3 (August, 2005) pages 621-659 Michelle Brattain, Associate Professor of History Georgia State University MARCUS BRUCE CHRISTIAN, AN AUTHOR AND PROFESSOR AT DILLARD University, observed in the mid-nineteen-fifties that while New Orleans might be known for “gumbo, jambalaya, lagniappe,…
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Race in American Science Fiction Indiana University Press 2011-01-06 paper 286 pages, 6 x 9 paper ISBN-13: 978-0-253-22259-6 cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-253-35553-9 Isiah Lavender, III, Assistant Professor of English University of Central Arkansas Blackness in a white genre Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III…
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Counting by Race Can Throw Off Some Numbers The New York Times 2009-02-11 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent Race Remixed: The Pigeonhole Problem. Articles in this series explore the growing number of mixed-race Americans. The federal Department of Education would categorize Michelle López-Mullins—a university student who is of Peruvian, Chinese, Irish, Shawnee and Cherokee descent—as “Hispanic.”…
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Halle Berry and Nahla: Not So Mixed, Not So Happy The Huffington Post 2011-02-09 Marcia Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University As we await the results of the 2010 Census it’s tempting to think that our growing comfort with categorizing people as multiracial has erased racism and the fear of interracial relations. But in a recent…