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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Graduate Student Profile: Chelsea Guillermo-Wann (Education) UCLA Graduate Quarterly University of California, Los Angeles Fall 2010 pages 6-7 Growing up in Santa Barbara, Chelsea Guillermo-Wann started “developing concepts of white and brown” while she was still in grade school, concepts that gave her a different understanding of her white mother and brown father—his heritage both…
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In Memoriam: Peggy Pascoe (1954-2010) Perspectives on History November 2010 Estelle Freedman, Edgar E. Robinson Professor of History Stanford University Scholar of gender, race, and the U.S. West; 2009 winner of AHA’s William H. Dunning Prize and Joan Kelly Prize Peggy Pascoe, the Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History and professor of ethnic studies…
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History’s most sordid cover-up New African February 2004 Stella Orakwue The history of the former European colonies’ mixed-race populations is one of the world’s biggest hidden scandals. How did these populations come about? We did not miraculously or biblically produce mixed-race babies from thin air. Most of the black women were raped… …Her children come…
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Mixed: A Mixed Heritage Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-11-09 Nicholas Greitzer America has always been considered a melting pot – a melting pot of ideas, of ethnicities, of religions, of experiences and of people. In the 2000 census, for example, this miscegenation resulted in more than 6.8 million Americans self-identifying as multiracial.…
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Rachel Knight: Slave, White Man’s Mistress and Mother to a Movement Johnathon Odell: Discovering Our Stories 2010-09-20 John Odell Rachel’s Children I can’t help but think of the Old Testament Abraham when I hear stories about Newt Knight. Both men sired children by a wife and a slave. In Newt’s case it was Serena and…
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“Hearing Radmilla” Film Screening Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona Gardner Auditorium, W. A. Franke College of Business (bldg. 81, room 101) 2010-11-22, 19:00 to 21:30 (Local Time) Native American Heritage Month The film will be introduced by filmmaker/producer Angela Webb, Radmilla Cody–Miss Navajo Nation 1997-1998, followed by Questions & Answer session. The film follows Radmilla…
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Dr. Susan Straight to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #180-Susan Straight When: Tuesday, 2010-11-09, 22:00Z…
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Sniffing Elephant Bones: The Poetics of Race in the Art of Ellen Gallagher Callaloo Volume 19, Number 2, Spring 1996 E-ISSN: 1080-6512 Print ISSN: 0161-2492 pages 337-339 DOI: 10.1353/cal.1996.0074 Judith Wilson, Former Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Assistant Professor of Art History and Assistant Professor of Visual Studies University of California, Irvine What she…
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Biraciality and Nationhood in Contemporary American Art Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Art and Culture Volume 14, Number 53 (Winter 2001-2002) pages 43–54 Kymberly N. Pinder, Associate Professor of Art History School of the Art Insitute of Chicago An article on work by artists responding to racial hybridity that features a discussion of Lorraine O’Grady’s…