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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VIS409 Mixed Race Women’s Memoirs Antioch University, Midwest Winter 2010 This course is designed as a multidisciplinary exploration of race, gender, and identity utilizing oral and written narratives of Black-white mixed race women from the mid-nineteenth century to the present as source material. Drawing from elements of cultural studies, African American studies, American studies, and…
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Curriculum corner The Daily of The University of Washington 2010-10-01 Laurel Christensen Despite talk of budget cuts, swelling classes and disappearing instructors, the UW is offering more than 50 new courses this quarter. These are a few unique courses now available to students… …Intergenerational Roots: A Mixed Heritage Family Oral History Project Offered through the…
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Essayist and Poet Paisley Rekdal to Read From Works at Ithaca College Ithaca College Clark Lounge, Egbert Hall 2010-10-05, 19:30 (Local Time) ITHACA, NY — Essayist and poet Paisley Rekdal will give a free public reading from her works on Tuesday, Oct. 5, at Ithaca College. Her presentation, part of the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series,…
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When you come from a mixed race background as Paisley Rekdal does — her mother is Chinese American and her father is Norwegian– thorny issues of identity politics, and interracial desire are never far from the surface.
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Mixed Is/Mixed Ain’t Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2010-08-09 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim, Assistant Director, Multicultural Resource Center and Africana Community Coordinator Oberlin College …As someone who has never passed as anything other than black (and maybe a lil’ somethin’ else from time to time, but always black), I was surprised to find just how…
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Hang Tough, Martina Frear Ensemble Theatre Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 2004-02-27 through 2004-02-29 Saturday at 20:00, Sunday at 14:00 Composed and Performed By: Audrey Pernell In Collaboration with: Vernice Miller and Jessica Nakamura Directed by: Vernice Miller Music: Ralph Denzer The Department of Theater presents an honors thesis project by Audrey Pernell, directed by Vernice…
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Race-ing Performativity through Transculturation, Taste and the Mulata Body Theatre Research International Volume 27, Number 2 (2002) pages 136-152 DOI: 10.1017/S0307883302000226 Alicia Arrizón, Professor of Women’s Studies University of California, Riverside A Cuban cocktail called mulata inspires an examination of the mulata body. Beyond an analysis of the cocktail as a commercial commodity, the mulata…
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Filling in the Chasm Between Black and White The Siskiyou Southern Oregon University 2006-02-27 Shannon Luders-Manuel Last week I had the pleasure of attending the lecture by James McBride, having read his memoir a few years ago when I was at my most-heightened search for identity. Without retaining much of the details of his life…
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“Being a Half-breed”: Discourses of Race and Cultural Syncreticity in the Works of Three Metis Women Writers Canadian Literature “Native, Individual, State” Number 144, Spring, 1995 pages 82-96 Jodi Lundgren In his introduction to All My Relations, Thomas King asserts that “being Native is a matter of race rather than something more transitory such as…
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Equally Multiracial? A Study of Asian/Whites and Black/Whites American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Hilton Atlanta and Atlanta Marriott Marquis Atlanta, Georgia 2010-08-13 19 pages Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl University of Virginia In a study with 28 individuals with either Asian/White or Black/White descent I find that all the participants prefer some variation of a multiracial identity. However,…