Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Mixed Race Gay Men and HIV: A Community History Format: Single Authored Book Anticipated Publication Date: 2010 Andrew Jolivétte, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies (Also see biographies at Speak Out! and Native Wiki.) San Fransisco State University Center for Health Disparities Research and Training Mixed Race Gay Men and HIV: A Community History will…
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The one drop rule & the one hate rule Dædalus, Winter 2005 David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History University of California at Berkeley Two portentous practices within the public discussion of ‘race’ in the United States since the late 1960s are rarely analyzed together. One is the method by which we decide…
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In the middle of a July night in 1958, a couple living in a small town in Virginia were awakened when a party of local police officers walked into their bedroom and arrested them for a felony violation of Virginia’s miscegenation statute. The couple had been married in the District of Columbia, which did allow…
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“What Are You?” Biracial Children in the Classroom Childhood Education Volume 84, Number 4 Summer 2008 pp.230-233 Association for Childhood Education International Traci P. Baxley, Assistant Professor College of Education Florida Atlantic University Over the last 30 years, biracial individuals have become one of the fastest growing populations in the United States. Despite this rapid…
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In entering into the twenty-first century, one might affirm that the face of Chinese America has changed or has it? Chineseness has been constantly conceptualized through the measure of phenotype, the quantity of blood, the preservation of language, or the possession of surname. But what happens when African American bodies and other nonwhite cultural sites…