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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Category: Women
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Jump at de Sun The Nation 2003-01-30 Kristal Brent Zook Anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, essayist and luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston dazzled her peers and patrons almost immediately upon her arrival in New York City in 1925, when she made a show-stopping grand entrance at a formal literary affair, flinging a red scarf…
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At Yale, a Right That Doesn’t Outweigh a Wrong The New York Times 2016-04-29 Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Peter V & C Vann Woodward Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut NEW HAVEN — Yale made a grievous mistake this week when it announced that it would keep the…
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atrina Jagodinsky’s enlightening history is the first to focus on indigenous women of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the existing legal regimes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In most western states, it was difficult if not impossible for Native women to inherit property, raise…
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22nd Annual David Noble Lecture featuring Robin D.G. Kelley Best Buy Theater Northrop Auditorium 84 Church Street, SE Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 Tuesday, 2016-04-26, 19:00 CDT (Local Time) Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor of History & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History University of California, Los Angeles The 22nd Annual David Noble Lecture…
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“Marrying Out” for Love: Women’s Narratives of Polygyny and Alternative Marriage Choices in Contemporary Senegal African Studies Review Volume 59, Number 1, April 2016 pages 155-174 Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Lecturer in African Studies University College London This article examines the ways in which childhood and youth experiences of living in polygynous households shape the aspirations…
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Color Lines: Sex, Race, and Body Politics in Pre/Colonial Ghana Indiana University, Bloomington Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society Schuessler Institute for Social Research 1022 E. 3rd Street Maple Room, IMU Bloomington, Indiana 47405 Thursday, 2016-04-28, 16:00-17:30 EDT (Local Time) Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University,…
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Passionate about promoting diversity within the profession she is patron for Black British Academics and a Board member for various diversity organisations such as the Black Cultural Archives and the City Women Network.
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Mystery still surrounds ‘Yellow Rose of Texas’ The Houston Chronicle Houston, Texas 2016-04-01 Joe Holley, Native Texan A statue of “Emily Morgan” by Veryl Goodnight stands amidst a garden of yellow roses in an office complex across the street from Memorial City Mall in Houston. Photo: Joe Holley, Joe Holley/Houston Chronicle So, what was happening…
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The ‘Human Computer’ Behind the Moon Landing Was a Black Woman The Daily Beast 2016-04-07 Nathan Place Image of Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1971. In an age of racism and sexism, Katherine Johnson broke both barriers at NASA. She calculated the trajectory of man’s first trip to the moon, and was…
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The SRB Interview: Jackie Kay Scottish Review of Books Volume 11, Issue 3 (2016) Opening one of Jackie Kay’s books is like walking into a busy metropolitan bar that has accommodated within its walls the deep past, character and charm of a country pub. You know you will encounter stories comic and sad, that you…