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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Passing for white and straight: How my looks hide my identity Salon 2013-12-08 Koa Beck Brooklyn, New York I’m neither straight nor white, but I’m frequently mistaken for both — and it’s taught me a lot about privilege I first became aware of my passing as a young child confronted with standardized testing. My second…
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There is nothing more bizarre to me than when people who identify as biracial/mixed race etc, demand that those of us who also have parents of differing races, identify ourselves just like they do. Barack Obama self-identifies as a black man. Period. Finished. Let him be. It is those people (and not black/white people) who…
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Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “The Democratization of Beauty?: Skin Bleaching, Skin Bronzing and the Global Market in Color Enhancement” University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-12-12, 10:30 PST (Local Time) France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara The seminar series “Race and…
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Interracial Marriage and the Civil Rights Revolution: A Personal Journey The University of Pennsylvania Provost presents The Inaugural Provost’s Lecture on Diversity University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School Room 110 2013-11-13, 17:00-19:00 EST (Local Time) Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of…
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Scripts of Blackness and the Racial Dynamics of Nationalism in Puerto Rico Papers of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Volume 6 (2009) 38 pages Dr. Isar P. Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey National identity, no matter how differently defined, is often constructed through claims to…
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The Symbolic Power of Color: Constructions of Race, Skin-Color, and Identity in Brazil Humanity & Society Volume 35, Numbers 1-2 (February 2011) pages 62-99 DOI: 10.1177/016059761103500104 Marcia L. Mikulak, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of North Dakota Some current cultural anthropologists define race as a social construct, yet explorations of the socio-historical constructions that give…
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“(1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race” sets out to explore the extent to which historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference, particularly among those for whom the legacy of the one-drop rule perceptibly lingers. Featuring the perspectives of 60 contributors representing 25 countries and combining…
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American Identity in the Age of Obama Routledge 2013-11-28 250 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-72201-8 Edited by: Amílcar Antonio Barreto, Associate Professor of Political Science Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts Richard L. O’Bryant, Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts The election of Barack Obama as…
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Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba [Williams Review] Association for Feminist Anthropology Book Reviews 2012-12-21 Erica Lorraine Williams, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia Nadine T. Fernandez, Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010) In this insightful and well-written ethnography, Nadine Fernandez explores a central paradox:…
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A Racial Paradise? Race and Race Mixture in Henry Louis Gates’ Brazil Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Volume 8, Issue 1, 2013 pages 88-91 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2013.768464 Chinyere Osuji, Assistant Professor of Sociology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden In this documentary, Henry Louis Gates explores the extent to which the notion of…