Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Self-Writing, Literary Traditions, and Post-Emancipation Identity: The Case of Mary Seacole Biography Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2000 pages 309-331 DOI: 10.1353/bio.2000.0009 Evelyn J. Hawthorne, Professor of English Howard University, Washington, D.C. “ . . . unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it…
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Community Profiles – Melissa Nobles MIT School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Great Ideas Change the World 2013-04-21 Leda Zimmerman “All societies periodically have to do soul-searching,” says Melissa Nobles, the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science. With research that illuminates historic episodes of racial and ethnic injustice, Nobles has developed a…
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Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a “quadroon,” she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich…
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Interview: Nia King, “Bodies on the Line” Mixed Reader: A blog of mixed race literature 2013-04-27 Tali Weinberg Nia King is multimedia producer with a passion for social justice. She started out as a zinester writing about mixed-race identity, made a short film about searching for trans-friendly housing in the Bay Area, and has recently…
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Violent Liaisons: Historical Crossings and the Negotiation of Sex, Sexuality, and Race in The Book of Night Women and The True History of Paradise small axe: a caribbean journal of criticism Volume 16,Number 2, 38 (2012) pages 43-59 DOI: 10.1215/07990537-1665668 Sam Vásquez, Associate Professor of English Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Increased criticism and representations…
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Exclusive: Sonia Rolland talks activism, new film Euromight: Your Guide to Afro-Europe 2013-04-15 Epée Hervé Dingong Sonia Rolland, (Miss France 2000), is an actress and model who has been outspoken about racial issues in the film and fashion industries, and in the media. In this exclusive interview she talks about her work, politics and what…