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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Category: Women
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20th Anniversary of the death of the Black, lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde
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Rereading Pauline Johnson Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes Volume 46, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 45-61 DOI: 10.1353/jcs.2012.0018 Carole Gerson, Professor of English Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada This essay argues for a broader appreciation of Pauline Johnson’s creative range and poetic accomplishment. Rereading her work in relation to some of J.…
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Disparity in Breast Cancer Between Black and White Women Can Be Eliminated by Regular Mammography Screening Rush University Medical Center News Release 2012-09-25 (CHICAGO) — Regular mammography screening can help narrow the breast cancer gap between black and white women, according to a retrospective study published in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment in August. Earlier…
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Her Mammy’s Daughter: Symbolic Matricide and Racial Constructions of Motherhood in Charles W. Chesnutt’s “Her Virginia Mammy” 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies Issue 16: Autumn 2005 ISSN: 1753-5794 Laura Dawkins, Professor of English Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky The black mother in slavery and beyond has inspired a growing body of…
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Multiracial Daughters of Asian Immigrants: Identity and Agency Women & Therapy Volume 36, Issue 3-4, 2013 Special Issue: Women and Immigration pages 268-285 DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2013.797776 Leilani Salvo Crane Counseling and Psychological Services University of Pennsylvania Multiracial daughters of Asian immigrants must navigate complex pathways to adulthood, self-efficacy, and self-concept. Frequently they are required by family…
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‘Belle’ breaks through the aristocratic color barrier USA Today 2013-07-21 Bryan Alexander British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw used to envy her classmates from the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London as they moved on to perform in lavish English period dramas. But as an actress of color, she found it difficult to land such…
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Weeding Out the Riffraff The New York Times Home & Garden 2013-07-17 Penelope Green, Editor At Home With Sheila Bridges Sheila Bridges played the cancer card only once, when a state trooper stopped her for speeding on the Taconic Parkway. At the time, Ms. Bridges, the interior designer Time magazine once celebrated as one of…