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: Campus Life
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Some Asians’ college strategy: Don’t check ‘Asian’ The Associated Press 2011-12-04 Jesse Washington, National Writer/Race and Ethnicity Lanya Olmstead was born in Florida to a mother who immigrated from Taiwan and an American father of Norwegian ancestry. Ethnically, she considers herself half Taiwanese and half Norwegian. But when applying to Harvard, Olmstead checked only one…
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Professor Alcira Dueñas: Illuminating the Andes: Indigenous and Mestizo Intellectuals in Colonial Peru ¿Qué Pasa, OSU? Ohio State University Autumn 2009 Michael J. Alarid A citizen of Colombia, Professor Alcira Dueñas is a historian who conducts research on the cultural and intellectual history of Amerindians and other subordinated groups of the Peruvian Andes during the…
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“So what are you…?”: Life as a Mixed-Blood in Academia The American Indian Quarterly Volume 27, Numbers 1 & 2 (Winter/Spring 2003) pages 369-372 E-ISSN: 1534-1828 Print ISSN: 0095-182X DOI: 10.1353/aiq.2004.0038 Julie Pelletier, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and Director of the Aboriginal Governance Program University of Winnepeg My mentor, Loudell Snow, and I were…
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Redefining their races: More students choosing to identify as mixed The Western Front Western Washington University Bellingham, Washington 2011-11-18 Casey Malloy When Western Washington University junior Emily Goronkin applied to the university three years ago, she came to a point in the application at which she was asked for her racial identity. She checked Hispanic…
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Outside the box: The multiracial/multiethnic student experience University of Colorado, Boulder Main Campus – University Memorial Center (UMC) 1669 Euclid Avenue Boulder, Colorado Room: 415 2011-11-08, 15:30-16:45 MST (Local Time) For the multiracial student, college is often a time of consolidating and exploring identity. Through a combination of research, personal stories, and facilitated discussion, this…
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Interview with Zara Paul: A Future Leader London School of Economics 2011-10-26 Zara Paul recently graduated from LSE. She has been listed among the top 100 black graduates of the UK in the Future Leaders magazine 2011-12. In this interview she talks about her time at LSE, her passion for music, what being mixed race…
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New Book Explores Georgetown Inside and Out Georgetown Alumni Online Georgetown University 2010-11-2010 Historian R. Emmett Curran discusses his recently published book, a three-volume history of Georgetown that uncovers little known facts about the university. True or false? 1. In Georgetown’s first decade of existence, nearly 20 percent of its students came from outside the…
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Biracial Student Voices University of Georgia 2008 140 pages Willie L. Banks Jr., Associate Dean of Student Life Cleveland State University A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILISOPHY The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences…