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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Afua Hirsch: Our parents left Africa – now we are coming home The Guardian 2012-08-25 Afua Hirsch, West Africa Correspondent As a child in London, Afua Hirsch was embarrassed by her African roots. Then, in February, she became a ‘returnee’, choosing to live in her parents’ birthplace, Ghana. Her story is echoed across the continent:…
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Re:Connecting (episode 27) Hapa Happy Hour: A lively discussion and celebration of the mixed heritage experience. 2012-08-19 Hosts: Rena Heinrich Hiwa Bourne Lisa Liang Published, graduated and Mom’d. The three ladies of Hapa Happy Hour return to discuss the micros in their lives in the hopes of connecting with yours. Download the episode (00:31:17, 35.8…
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“Imoinda’s Shade” examines the ways in which British writers utilize the most popular African female figure in eighteenth-century fiction and drama to foreground the African woman’s concerns and interests as well as those of a British nation grappling with the problems of slavery and abolition.
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Uncertainty and evolution: Contributions to identity development for female college students who identify as multiracial/biracial-bisexual/pansexual Iowa State University 2008 322 pages Publication Number: AAT 3310805 ISBN: 9780549596066 Alissa Renee King A dissertation submitted to the graduate faculty partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In this study, I explored how female…
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Hopes Spring Eternal: ‘Three Strong Women,’ by Marie NDiaye The New York Times 2012-08-10 Fernanda Eberstadt Americans have a curiously limited vision of France. We may be wild about Chanel sunglasses, Vuitton handbags, Champagne or Paris in the spring, but when it comes to the kinds of contemporary French culture that can’t be bought in…
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In Search of Something Akin to Freedom: Black Women, Slavery, and Power Florida State University 2007 78 pages Katrina Songanett Smith A Thesis submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts This thesis examines both historical and fictional representations of interracial relationships in…
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UCSB Ph.D. Alum Overcomes Odds and Pays Back With History Grad Parent Award UCSB GradPost University of California, Santa Barbara 2012-07-20 Patricia Marroquin, Guest Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly believes strongly in paying back and paying forward. When she was a History Ph.D. student at UCSB just a few years ago, “graduate school was quite difficult…
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Rosario Dawson and the Ambiguous Blackness of Latinidad antenna 2012-08-05 Keara Goin As has become abundantly clear to me over the course of my research, in the context of contemporary popular U.S. racial discourse, one is either Latina/o or Black, not both. Moreover, we see this phenomenon replicated in U.S. cinema, where characters played by…
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Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family’s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders Penguin Press December 2002 432 pages Paperback ISBN 9780142001035 Mark Perry A story of race consciousness and the fight for equality told through the lives of one extraordinary American family In the late 1820s Sarah and Angelina Grimké traded their elite…
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Brown Eyes: A Selection of Creative Expressions by Black and Mixed Race Women Troubador Publishing 2006 292 pages 5 x 0.6 x 8 inches ISBN 10: 1905237146; ISBN-13: 978-1905237142 Edited by: Nicole Moore Brown Eyes is a rare collection of poetry and autobiographical writing from a diverse group of black and mixed-race women—everyday women expressing…