Mixed Race Studies

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  • Coffee Colored Children: A film by Ngozi Onwurah

    This lyrical, unsettling film conveys the experience of children of mixed racial heritage. Suffering the aggression of racial harassment, a young girl and her brother attempt to wash their skin white with scouring powder.

  • The Impossibility of Return: Black Women’s Migrations to Africa

    The Impossibility of Return: Black Women’s Migrations to Africa Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 27, Number 2, 2006 pages 54-86 E-ISSN: 1536-0334 Print ISSN: 0160-9009 DOI: 10.1353/fro.2007.0009 Piper Kendrix-Williams, Professor of African-American Studies The College of New Jersey I was on an international flight, traveling from New York to Paris, when an older…

  • Half + Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural

    Half + Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural Pantheon an imprint of Random House 1998-06-09 288 pages ISBN: 978-0-375-70011-8 (0-375-70011-0) Edited by Claudine C. O’Hearn As we approach the twenty-first century, biracialism and biculturalism are becoming increasingly common.  Skin color and place of birth are no longer reliable signifiers of one’s identity or…

  • Seeking Participants for a Multiracial Identity Documentary in Twin Cities Area

    Mike Peden, a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a degree in journalism and minor in communication studies and an employee of the St. Paul Neighborhood Network is currently working on a second documentary about multiracial identity that will air on the station and online.  This is the second part in a series of shows…

  • Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away

    “Secret Daughter” tells her story of survival. It traces June’s astonishing discoveries about her mother and about her own fierce determination to thrive.

  • Drawing Battle Lines

    Drawing Battle Lines Sarah Lawrence College Magazine Spring 2003: Who Are You Catherine McKinley[-Davis] was one of only a few thousand African-American and biracial children adopted by white couples in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Throughout her childhood and adolescence, her consciousness grew as she did. Her very identity—composed both of the whiteness and…

  • A Letter to My Father: Growing up Filipina and American

    A Letter to My Father: Growing up Filipina and American University of Oklahoma Press 2008 184 pages 5.5″ x 8.5″ x 0″ 8 b&w illustrations, 2 maps Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8061-3909-8 Helen Madamba Mossman Going from the jungles of the wartime Philippines to the schoolyards of northwestern Oklahoma is no easy transition. For one twelve-year-old girl,…

  • Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America

    Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America Basic Books an imprint of The Perseus Books Group 2006-12-28 302 pages ISBN: 9780786718825 ISBN-10: 078671882X Elliott Lewis Television journalist Elliott Lewis weaves his memoirs as a black-and-white biracial American with the voices of dozens of multiracial people who are challenging how we think and speak about race today.…

  • How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man’s Search for Identity

    How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man’s Search for Identity Temple University Press 1999 264 pages 6×9 EAN: 978-1-56639-651-6 ISBN: 1-56639-651-4 Kevin R. Johnson, Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies University of California, Davis This compelling account of racial identity takes a close look at the question…

  • Sab and Autobiography

    Sab and Autobiography University of Texas Press 1993 185 pages 6 x 9 in. ISBN: 978-0-292-70442-8 Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga Translated and introduced by Nina M. Scott Eleven years before Uncle Tom’s Cabin fanned the fires of abolition in North America, an aristocratic Cuban woman told an impassioned story of the fatal love…