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: Autobiography
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Nowhere People Penguin Books Australia January 2005 300 pages Paperback ISBN-13:9780143001911 Henry Reynolds, Emeritus Associate Professor of History and Politics James Cook University, Australia ‘That’s how at six at night on 11 May 1928 I stopped being a Yanyuwa child and became a nowhere person… Motherless, cultureless and stuck in a government institution because my…
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DNA Is Only One Way to Spell Identity The Washington Post 2006-01-01 W. Ralph Eubanks Every year,” I once overheard my father say jokingly to a friend, “thousands of Negroes disappear.” I remember my 8-year-old imagination going into overdrive, picturing people zapped from their homes in the middle of the night. It was only as…
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This essay focuses on how immigrant mothers and second generation interracial daughters construct, perform, and negotiate racial and ethnic hybrid identities.
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Being Eurasian: Memories Across Racial Divides University of Washington Press 2004 296 pages 6″ x 9″ Paperback (9789622096714) Hardcover (9789622096707) Vicky Lee Hong Kong Baptist University What was it like being a Eurasian in colonial Hong Kong? How is the notion of Eurasianness remembered in some Hong Kong memoirs? Being Eurasian is a description and…
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Journeys in Multiracial America C-SPAN Elliot Bay Book Company Seattle, Washington 2007-01-27 Elliott Lewis Journalist Elliott Lewis discusses his life as a biracial American at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle. In his memior Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America, the author explains that while he was raised with two parents of mixed racial heritage…
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Half-Caste (An Excerpt) Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 2, Number 1, (2008) 6 pages Angela Ajayi At about the age of nineteen, a year after I arrived for college in the United States, I stopped thinking of myself as “half-caste.” The word, so loaded in its literal meaning and with its colonial roots, was…
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The Mulatto Millennium: Rethinking blackness in a multiracial world Utne Reader September/October 1998 Danzy Senna, from the book Half and Half Strange to wake up and realize you’re in style. That’s what happened to me just the other morning. It was the first day of the new millennium, and I woke to find that mulattos…
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The New Multiracial Student: Where Do We Start? The Vermont Connection Volume 31 (2010) pages 128-135 Jackie Hyman University of Vermont Jackie Hyman earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2008, and is anticipating her graduation from HESA in 2010. Having gone through periods of doubt and confusion throughout…
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When you come from a mixed race background as Paisley Rekdal does — her mother is Chinese American and her father is Norwegian– thorny issues of identity politics, and interracial desire are never far from the surface.