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: Oceania
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Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “Race in Motion: Traversing the Transnational Emotionscape of White Beauty in Indonesia” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-10-31, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) L. Ayu Saraswati, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies University of Hawai‘i,…
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Tom Christian, known as the Voice of Pitcairn for his half-century-long role in keeping his tiny South Pacific island, famed as the refuge of the Bounty mutineers, connected to the world, died at his home there on July 7. Mr. Christian, Pitcairn’s chief radio officer and a great-great-great-grandson of Fletcher Christian, the mutiny’s leader, was…
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Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia University of Hawai‘i Press March 2013 192 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3664-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8248-3736-5 L. Ayu Saraswati, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies University of Hawai‘i In Indonesia, light skin color has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia’s changing beauty ideals and traces them…
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Pacific Islanders: a Misclassified People The Chronicle of Higher Education 2013-06-03 Kawika Riley, Chief Executive and Founder Pacific Islander Access Project also adjunct lecturer at George Washington University Imagine that you’re a parent, teacher, or counselor who helped a promising student apply for financial aid. She’s an underrepresented minority, so you encouraged her to apply…
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The longstanding attempt to legislate Indigenous-Asian relations out of existence continues to cast its shadow today. Cathy Freeman is identified as Australia’s most famous Indigenous sportswoman, but she is also of Chinese descent.
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Mixed Relations: Asian-Aboriginal Contact in North Australia University of Western Australia Publishing March 2006 384 pages 250 x 170 mm Hardcover ISBN: 9781920694418 Regina Ganter, Professor, School of Humanities Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Awards Won – 2007 NSW Premier’s Awards (Community and Regional History Prize) Won – 2007 Ernest Scott History Prize Australian histories too…
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White Without Soap [Review] Australian Womens Book Review Volume 23.1&2 (2011) pages 16-18 Jean Taylor Marguerita Stephens. White Without Soap: Philanthropy, Caste and Exclusion in Colonial Victoria 1835–1888, A Political Economy of Race. Melbourne: Melbourne University Custom Book Centre, 2010. As it says on the frontispiece, White Without Soap was a PhD thesis in the…
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White Without Soap: Philanthropy, Caste and Exclusion in Colonial Victoria 1835-1888, A Political Economy of Race University of Melbourne Custom Book Centre 2010 318 pages Paperback ISBN: 0980759420, 9780980759426 Marguerita Stephens Explores the connections between nineteenth century imperial anthropology, racial ‘science’ and the imposition of colonising governance on the Aborigines of Port Phillip/Victoria between 1835 and…
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BeDevil: Colonialism and the children of miscegenation Journal of International Communication Volume 19, Issue 1, 2013 Special Issue: South-North conversations pages 43-58 DOI: 10.1080/13216597.2012.754363 Wajiha Raza Rizvi Hashmi Media Institute, Karachi, Pakistan BeDevil (1993) addresses the marginalization of Aboriginal Australians in the events, symbolism, and media hype surrounding the bicentenary of European settlement in Australia…