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: Family/Parenting
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Raising Multiracial Awareness in Family Therapy through Critical Conversations Journal of Marital and Family Therapy Volume 31, Issue 4 Pages 399 – 411 October 2005 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2005.tb01579.x Teresa McDowell School of Family Studies University of Connecticut Lucrezia Ingoglia Greater Lakes Mental Healthcare Tacoma, Washington Takiko Seizawa Family Service Associates San Antonio, Texas Christina Holland Behavioral…
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Deconstructing Race: Biracial Adolescents’ Fluid Racial Self-labels 2008-12-01 Alethea Rollins University of North Carolina, Greensboro Andrea G. Hunter, Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies University of North Carolina, Greensboro Biracial people shatter the idea of effortless categorization of race, identity, and group membership. Multirace membership forces scholars to examine what race is, how they…
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“Secret Daughter” tells her story of survival. It traces June’s astonishing discoveries about her mother and about her own fierce determination to thrive.
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Mixed Blood Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South University of Georgia Press 2005-03-28 60 pages Illustrated, Trim size: 5.5 x 8.25 ISBN: 978-0-8203-2731-0 Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Term Professor of Southern Culture University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men—including traders, soldiers, and…
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Family Identity: Black-White Interracial Family Health Experience Journal of Family Nursing (2006) Vol. 12, No. 1 Pages 22-37 DOI: 10.1177/1074840705285213 Marcia Marie Byrd, PhD, RN College of St. Catherine Ann Williams Garwick, PhD, RN, LP, LMFT, FAAN University of Minnesota The purpose of this interpretive descriptive study was to describe how eight Black-White couples with…