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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The Quadroon Ball on stage one week only Oct. 13-17 [2010] Lone Star College The Woodlands, Texas 2010-09-22 Lone Star College-CyFair Drama Department presents Damon Wright’s play “The Quadroon Ball” on stage Oct. 13 through Oct. 17 [2010]. “The Quadroon Ball” is a moving drama taking place in New Orleans just prior to the Civil…
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This essay focuses on how immigrant mothers and second generation interracial daughters construct, perform, and negotiate racial and ethnic hybrid identities.
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The Great Unraveling [Book Review of “Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America”] The New York Times 2010-12-29 Raymond Arsenault, Visiting Scholar, Florida State University Study Center in London and John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History, University of South Florida Eugene Robinson, Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America (New York: Doubleday, 2010). When Henry Louis…
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Not Quite White: Race Classification and the Arab American Experience This paper was first presented at a symposium on Arab Americans by: The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Georgetown University 1997-04-04 (This is also a chapter in Arabs in America: Building a New Future) Issues of race and identity are certainly dominant factors in American…
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The “One Drop Rule” revisited: Mary Ann McQueen of Montgomery County, North Carolina Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2010-12-21 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Many people, perhaps most, think of “race” as an objective reality. Historically, however, racial categorization has been unstable, contradictory, and arbitrary. Consider the…
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The development of memory for own- and other-race faces Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Volume 98, Issue 4 (December 2007) pages 233–242 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2007.08.004 Gail S. Goodman Department of Psychology University of California, Davis University of Oslo Liat Sayfan Department of Psychology University of California, Davis Jennifer S. Lee Department of Psychology Cabrillo College, Aptos, California…
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“A blood mixture which experience has shown furnishes the very highest grade of citizen-material”: Selective Assimilation in a Polynesian Case of Naturalization to U.S. Citzenship American Studies (ISSN: ISSN 0026-3079) Volume 45, Number 3 (Fall 2004) pages 33-48 J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology Wesleyan University On the 11th of July,…