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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Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans Harvard University Press 2009 400 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 19 halftones in 20 p mock insert Hardcover ISBN: 9780674023512 Shirley Elizabeth Thompson, Associate Professor in American Studies University of Texas, Austin New Orleans has always captured our imagination as an exotic city…
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Does racial hybridity offer a future beyond racial difference? At a time when the idea of a postracial society has entered public discourse, “The Amalgamation Waltz” investigates the practices that conjoined blackness and whiteness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction Oxford University Press October 2009 216 pages Hardback ISBN13: 9780195377361; ISBN10: 0195377362 Caroline Rody, Associate Professor of English University of Virginia In the wake of all that is changing in local and global cultures–in patterns of migration, settlement, labor, and communications–a radical interaction has…
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How the courts dealt with wills bequeathing property or freedom to mixed race children.
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Understanding the Epistemology of Ethnic Identity Development in Multiethnic College Students Journal of College Student Development Volume 49, Number 5, September/October 2008 pages 443-458 E-ISSN: 1543-3382 Print ISSN: 0897-5264 DOI: 10.1353/csd.0.0028 Prema Chaudhari University of Pittsburgh Jane Elizabeth Pizzolato, Assistant Professor Department of Education University of California, Los Angeles We examined the nuances of multiethnic…
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Feeling Ancestral: The Emotions of Mixed Race and Memory in Asian American Cultural Productions positions: east asia cultures critique Volume 16, Number 2, Fall 2008 pages 457-482 Jeffrey Santa Ana, Assistant Professor English Department Stony Brook University The current era of war, militarism, and neocolonialism in the Pacific is a time in which capitalist expansion simultaneously…
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Second Glances: Two African-American Women Take a Closer Look at their Jewish Identities Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal Volume 13, Number 2 (Autumn 2008) pages 52-63 Amy André Nzinga Koné-Miller This conversation is co-written by two African American women, one who converted to Judaism and one who was born Jewish. They dialogue about the differences…
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From: KNPR in Nevada: A Conversation About Race and Ethnicity in America (2008-08-22) We continue our conversation about race and ethnicity in America when we host a joint broadcast [on 2008-08-22] with KCEP-FM. KCEP’s Patricia Cunningham joins us with UNLV [University of Nevada at Las Vegas] Professor Rainier Spencer and Pastor Robert Fowler of The Victory Missionary Baptist…
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From Wikipedia: Loving v. (versus) [Commonwealth of] Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court by a [unanimous] 9-0 vote declared [on 1967-06-12] Virginia’s anti-miscegenation statute, the “Racial Integrity Act of 1924“, unconstitutional, thereby overturning Pace v. Alabama (1883) and ending all race-based legal restrictions…