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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Genealogy of the formation of race and gender hierarchies in the U.S.
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“Taking Assimilation to Heart” examines marriages between white women and indigenous men in Australia and the United States between 1887 and 1937.
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An analysis of how black women used the mulatta figure to contest racial barriers.
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Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory: A Novel University of Texas Press September 2009 198 pages 6 x 9 in.; 1 map ISBN: 978-0-292-71920-0 (hardcover, no dust jacket) ISBN: 978-0-292-72128-9 (paperback) Emma Pérez, Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies University of Colorado This literary adventure takes place in nineteenth-century Texas and follows the story…
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Second Glances: Two African-American Women Take a Closer Look at their Jewish Identities Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal Volume 13, Number 2 (Autumn 2008) pages 52-63 Amy André Nzinga Koné-Miller This conversation is co-written by two African American women, one who converted to Judaism and one who was born Jewish. They dialogue about the differences…
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The Tragic Mulatta Plays the Tragic Muse Victorian Literature and Culture Volume 37, Issue 2 (June 2009) pages 501-522 DOI: 10.1017/S1060150309090317 Kimberly Snyder Manganellia, Assistant Professor of 19th-Century British and American Literature Clemson University Marie Lavington, the runaway octoroon slave in Charles Kingsley‘s little-read novel Two Years Ago (1857), makes this declaration of independence in…
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Raising Chicanos in the Great White North: A White Mother’s Muse Qualitative Inquiry Volume 15, Number 7, (July 2009) pages 1155-1177 DOI: 10.1177/1077800409338033 Traci Fordham-Hernández, Assistant Professor of Performance and Communication Arts St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY This article explores paradoxes in being the White mother of Mexican American children and discusses how some of its…
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Dr. Maria P. P. Root 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, Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #113 – Maria P. P. Root, Ph.D. Wednesday,…