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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Stories of Multiracial Experiences in Literature for Children, Ages 9–14 Children’s Literature in Education December 2013, Volume 44, Issue 4 pages 359-376 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-013-9196-5 Amina Chaudhri, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago William H. Teale, Professor of Literacy, Language and Culture University of Illinois, Chicago This study analyzed 90 realistic novels written…
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For the Movement: Community Education Supporting Multiracial Organizing Equity & Excellence in Education Volume 38, Issue 2, 2005 pages 145-154 DOI: 10.1080/10665680590935124 Eric Hamako University of Massachusetts, Amherst The multiracial people’s movement in the United States has expanded significantly in the last 10 years (Douglass, 2003). Historically, community-based education programs have supported social movements in…
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Coping with the crickets: a fusion autoethnography of silence, schooling, and the continuum of biracial identity formation International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Published online: 2012-11-07 DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2012.731537 Lynnette Mawhinney, Assistant Professor of Elementary/Early Childhood Education The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey Emery Marc Petchauer, Assistant Professor of Teacher Development & Educational…
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Lessons From a Preservice Teacher: Examining Missed Opportunities For Multicultural Education in an English Education Program Networks: An On-line Journal for Teacher Research Volume 41, Number 1 (Spring 2012) 10 pages Amy M. Vetter, Assistant Professor Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education, School of Education University of North Carolina, Greensboro Jeanie Reynolds, Lecturer/Director of…
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AALR Mixed Race Initiative The Asian American Literary Review 2012-08-26 Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, co-Editor-in-Chief Thanks to political organizing, scholarship, and the arts, not to mention media coverage, mixed race has become hyper-visible. So what’s next? The Asian American Literary Review (AALR) Mixed Race Initiative, launching this Fall 2012 and running until Spring 2014, won’t simply…
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Growing Up Biracial in a Southern Elementary School Georgia Southern University May 2009 139 pages Julie Kight A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION This dissertation explored the relationship between racial identity of biracial children (defined as fifty percent…
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Through a Glass Darkly: The Persistence of Race in Education Research & Scholarship Educational Researcher Volume 41, Number 4 (May 2012) Pages 115-120 DOI: 10.3102/0013189X12440743 Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison Although education researchers understand that race is a problematic concept of spurious value, the concept…
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The lessons of slavery: Discourses of slavery, mestizaje, and blanqueamiento in an elementary school in Puerto Rico American Ethnologist Volume 35 Number 1 (February 2008) pages 115-135 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00009.x Isar P. Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Mariolga Reyes Cruz Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Mariluz Franco-Ortiz…