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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Biracial Identity The Lion’s Roar Issue 27-2 (September 2010) Student-Run Newspaper of Newton South High School Newton, Massachusetts Caroline Rosa, Managing Editor Rachel Leshin, Managing Editor Approaching the lunch table where her black friends were seated, sophomore Kayla Burton tried beginning to bridge the racial gap between her friend groups. But when she tried to…
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The Monster Inside: 19th Century Racial Constructs in the 24th Century Mythos of Star Trek The Journal of Popular Culture Volume 31, Issue 1 (Summer 1997) pages 23–35 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1997.3101_23.x Denise Alessandria Hurd That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight is black—bright red as…
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In Memoriam: Peggy Pascoe (1954-2010) Perspectives on History November 2010 Estelle Freedman, Edgar E. Robinson Professor of History Stanford University Scholar of gender, race, and the U.S. West; 2009 winner of AHA’s William H. Dunning Prize and Joan Kelly Prize Peggy Pascoe, the Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History and professor of ethnic studies…
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“The devil made the mulatto”: Race, religion and respectability in a Black Atlantic, 1931-2005 University of Toronto 2007 312 pages Publication Number: AAT NR39517 ISBN: 9780494395172 Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom According to The Historical Journal there has only been one scholarly study of mixed- race history.…
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Sources of Self-Categorization as Minority for Mixed-Race Individuals: Implications for Affirmative Action Entitlement Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 16, Issue 4 (October 2010) Pages 453-460 DOI: 10.1037/a0020128 Jessica J. Good, Assistant Professor of Psychology Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina George F. Chavez Department of Psychology Rutgers University Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of…
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Students manage social lives amidst diversity The Dartmouth Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 2010-11-11 Marina Villeneuve, The Dartmouth Staff Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a three-part series investigating race at the College. The experiences and opinions expressed are the views of individual students, and should not be considered representative of wider communities.…
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Multiracial representations: Nishime examines Battlestar Galactica University of Washington Department of Communications 2010-11-15 Amanda Weber LeiLani Nishime, Assistant Professor of Communication, is a self-proclaimed science fiction fan, so it seemed natural to her to set her research sights on the TV series Battlestar Galactica. Although science fiction is generally a genre about the future, it…