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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Princeton Professor tweets about her views on mixed-race identity (Interview with Melissa Harris-Lacewell) Mixed Child: The Pulse of the Mixed Community 2009-07-29 Jeff Eddings MSNBC contributor, Princeton University’s Associate Professor of Politics & African American Studies and author of Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought Melissa Harris-Lacewell had a frank discussion…
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Bi-Ethnic Identity: Converging Conversations Language Literacy & Culture Review University of Maryland, Baltimore County 2009 Anissa Sorokin Univerisity of Maryland This paper examines ethnic identity, with a focus on bi-ethnic identity, from academic, creative non-fiction, and personal perspectives. Social psychological models of ethnic identity development, along with salient aspects of ethnic identity, are explored and…
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Bradley Lincoln of Multiple Heritage Project (mix-d™) Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #138 – Bradley Lincoln When: Wednesday, 2010-01-27 00:00Z Bradley Lincoln, Founder Multiple Heritage Project…
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What are you? For multiracial students, declaring an identity can be complicated Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton University 2010-01-13 Issue Maya Rock (Class of 2002) In my first few weeks at Princeton, I became accustomed to fielding questions: What’s your background? Where are your parents from? And the strikingly existential: What are you? What the questioners…
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Review Essay: Racial Relations and Racism in Brazil Culture & Psychology Volume 13, Number 4 (December 2007) pages 461-473 DOI: 10.1177/1354067X07082805 Marcus Eugênio Oliveira Lima Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil Telles, Edward Eric, Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. Princeton, NJ/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. 324 pp. ISBN 978–0–691–12792–7 (pbk)…
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Challenging Mestizaje: A Gender Perspective on Indigenous and Afrodescendant Movements in Latin America Critique of Anthropology Vol. 25, No. 3 pages 307-330 (2005) DOI: 10.1177/0308275X05055217 Helen I. Safa, Professor Emerita of Anthropology/Latin American Studies University of Florida This article compares the contemporary movements for cultural autonomy and social legitimation organized by the indigenous and Afrodescendant…
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Patrolling Borders: Hybrids, Hierarchies and the Challenge of Mestizaje Political Research Quarterly Vol. 57, No. 4 pages 597-607 (2004) DOI: 10.1177/106591290405700408 Cristina Beltran, Associate Professor of Political Science Haverford College “Hybridity” has become a popular concept among scholars of critical race theory and identity, particularly those studying Chicano identity. Some scholars claim that hybridity—premised on…
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Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South University of North Carolina Press March 1998 382 pages 6.125 x 9.25 8 tables, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN 978-0-8078-4712-1 Peter W. Bardaglio, Associate Professor of History Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland Winner of the 1996 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians…
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The Future of Ethnicity Classifications Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 35, Issue 9 November 2009 pages 1417 – 1435 DOI: 10.1080/13691830903125901 Peter J. Aspinall, Senior Research Fellow Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent In the first decade of the twenty-first century, ‘diversity’ has emerged as a key value in its…
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The Mercurial Nature and Abiding Power of Race: A Transnational Family Story The American Historical Review Volume 108, Number 1 (February 2003) pages 84-118 Martha Hodes, Professor of History New York University There are many ways to expose the mercurial nature of racial classification. Scholars of U.S. history might note, for example, that the category…