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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At age 38, Jennifer Teege happened to pluck a library book from the shelf—and discovered a horrifying fact: Her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler’s List. Reviled as the “butcher of Płaszów,” Goeth was executed in 1946. The more Teege learned about him, the more certain she became: If her…
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Deutsch sein und schwarz dazu: Erinnerungen eines Afro-Deutschen [Being German and also Being Black: Memoirs of an Afro-German] Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag November 2013 200 pages Hardback ISBN: ISBN 978-3-423-26005-3 ePub ISBN: 978-3-423-42033-4 eBook ISBN: 978-3-423-42034-1 Theodor Michael Theodor Michaels Autobiografie ist so aberwitzig, dass sie erfunden sein könnte, wenn sie nicht allzu wahr wäre. Er entfaltet…
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Red, White, and Black: A Personal Essay on Interracial Marriage Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 29, Numbers 2 & 3, 2008 pages 51-58 DOI: 10.1353/fro.0.0021 Jacki Thompson Rand, Professor of History; American Indian and Native Studies University of Iowa About a month before my father died, a long-held question spilled out of my…
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“A Lot Like You” ~ Where Will Your Cultural Journey Take You? Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2014-01-15, 20:00Z (15:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Eliaichi Kimaro, Filmmaker On today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio, we will meet Activist-turned-filmmaker Eliaichi Kimaro. As the director of 9elephants productions, Eli produces videos for non-profits about social…
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Afro-Vietnamese Orphans Tell Their Stories in ‘Indochina: Traces of a Mother’ Black Film Center/Archive Indiana University, Bloomington 2012-04-25 A new(er) documentary film by Idrissou Mora-Kpai follows the stories of Afro-Vietnamese orphans born of Vietnamese mothers and West African fathers – tirailleurs sénégalais – brought by the French to fight la sale guerre, mostly in today’s…
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Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge West Virginia University Press December 2013 160 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-1-935978-24-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-935978-23-7 ePub ISBN: 978-1-935978-25-1 PDF ISBN: 978-1-938228-64-3 Original Text by Frances Harriet Whipple (1805-1878) with Elleanor Eldridge (1794-1862) Edited by: Joycelyn K. Moody, Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature and Professor of English University of Texas,…
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Telling Multiracial Tales: An Autoethnography of Coming Out Home Qualitative Inquiry Volume 20, Number 1 (January 2014) pages 51-60 DOI: 10.1177/1077800413508532 Benny LeMaster Southern Illinois University, Carbondale What follows are experimental autoethnographic tales of ambiguous embodiment. The tales weave in and out of the text and work to articulate gender in unsuspecting spaces. Together, we…