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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Performing Mulata-ness: The Politics of Cultural Authenticity and Sexuality among Carioca Samba Dancers Latin American Perspectives Volume 39, Number 2 (March 2012) pages 113-133 DOI: 10.1177/0094582X11430049 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Anthropology Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada In Rio de Janeiro, mulatas—brown-skinned women of mixed racial descent who dance the samba in Carnival parades…
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Call for Papers: Association for Feminist Anthropology Sessions American Anthropological Association 2012-02-07 Posted by Josyln O. The Association for Feminist Anthropology welcomes sessions to be considered for inclusion in AFA’s programming for the 111th AAA Annual Meeting, to be held November 14-18, 2012 in San Francisco. The AAA meeting theme this year is “Borders,” so…
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A Philippa Schuyler moment On an Overgrown Path 2011-08-02 John McLaughlin Williams Philippa Schuyler. Just hearing the name takes me back to a place in my childhood I have not revisited in memory more than a couple of times in decades. Philippa Schuyler’s name was but one of dozens lodged in my parent’s large sheet…
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Monstrous Sex: The Erotic in Naomi Mitchinson’s Science Fiction Michigan Feminist Studies Volume 16 (2002): Deviance Sarah Shaw “Oh fuck sex!” replied celebrated science-fiction novelist Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999) when Jill Benton, one of her biographers, asked for her views on the topic during the 1980s. Despite Mitichison’s attempts to move the discussion of her body…
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Woman traces her Tanzanian roots in film The Citizen Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 2012-02-04 Tyrone Beason Sometimes a journey begins with a song. In the case of Seattle documentary filmmaker Eli Kimaro, it was a transporting version of the classic lullaby Summertime from the African-American opera Porgy and Bess, this one sung by the Benin-born…
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Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes University of Massachusetts Press December, 2001 256 pages 6.125 x 9.25 ISBN (paper): 978-1-55849-310-0 Susan Sleeper-Smith, Professor of History Michigan State University An innovative study of cultural resilience and resistance in early America A center of the lucrative fur trade throughout the…
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This first full-length biography of the first published Asian North American fiction writer portrays both the woman and her times.
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Biracial/Bicultural Identity in the Writings of Sui Sin Far MELUS Volume 26, Number 2 (Summer 2001) pages 159-186 Vanessa Holford Diana, Professor of English Westfield State Unviversity, Westfield, Massachusetts At the turn into the twentieth century, American culture witnessed related literary and political shifts through which marginalized voices gained increased strength despite the severe racism…