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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Mixed-Bloods, Mestizas, and Pintos: Race, Gender, and Claims to Whiteness in Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It? Western American Literature Volume 36, Number 3 (Fall 2001) pages 212-231 Margaret D. Jacobs, Professor of History & Director, Women’s and Gender Studies University of Nebraska, Lincoln Since the…
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The mulatta text and the muted voice in “Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon”: Revising the genre of the slave narrative Marquette University August 1995 202 pages Rebecca Anne Ferguson A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University, Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English From…
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The tan from Ipanema: Freyre, Morenidade, and the cult of the body in Rio De Janeiro Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies October 2009 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Art Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada She says she has brown skin, and a feverish body And inside the chest, love of Brazil…
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Scouting the City for Her Characters The New York Times 2011-08-19 John Leland A Summer afternoon in Chelsea, and Sarah Jones was on a recon mission, searching for… she did not know what, exactly. An accent, for starters. An ethnic wild card. “Hybridity,” she said, using a word she uses often to describe her field…
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Somebody Always Singing You University Press of Mississippi 1997 160 pages ISBN: 0878059814 (9780878059812) Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees The story of a multi-racial woman coming to understand her identity As the child of African-American and Native American parents, Kaylynn TwoTrees grew up hearing herself called “half breed” and “mixed blood,” terms which now, after many transforming…
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Powerful autobiography from the front woman of influential ska band, The Selecter
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San Francisco State Journalism Professor Yumi Wilson’s Multicultural Heritage Helps Connect People Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2011-08-11 Lydia Lum San Francisco State Journalism Professor Yumi Wilson’s Multicultural Heritage Helps Connect People Yumi Wilson teaches news writing, opinion and literary journalism at San Francisco State University where she’s an associate professor of journalism. Formerly a…