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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Mixed Blessings from a Cambridge Union Camden Review 2016-09-15 Angela Cobbinah Elizabeth Anionwu THE early years of one’s life normally follow a predictable path with any unexpected twists and turns suitably documented for posterity. But it was not until she was in her 60s that Elizabeth Anionwu, one of the country’s most senior nurses, was…
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Books in Brief: Nonfiction The New York Times 1997-10-26 Douglas A. Sylva The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America. By Jon Michael Spencer. New York University, $24.95. Many members of minority groups have long argued that society must recognize and accept an individual’s racial identity for that individual to enjoy feelings of self-esteem.…
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Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction by Diana Rebekkah Paulin (review) [Ings] African American Review Volume 47, Number 1, Spring 2014 Katharine Nicholson Ings, Associate Professor of English Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana Diana Rebekkah Paulin. Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2012. 315…
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SIL LAI ABRAMS HAD HER SUSPICIONS about her race as a very young child. Her brown skin was much darker and her hair much curlier than her fair-skinned, straight-haired younger sister and brother. When she would walk down the street with her Chinese mother and White father, her White neighbors would stare and whisper.
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Nicholas Guyatt’s ‘Bind Us Apart’ Book Reviews The New York Times 2016-04-29 Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Columbia University, New York, New York BIND US APART How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation By Nicholas Guyatt Illustrated. 403 pp. Basic Books. $29.99. Half a century ago, inspired by the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown…
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“I’m Aboriginal. I’m Just Not The Aboriginal You Expect Me To Me.” // REVIEW OF “Am I Black Enough For You?” By Anita Heiss #AWW2016 A Keyboard and An Open Mind: The Blog of Avid Reader and Writer, Emily Witt 2016-08-15 Emily Witt Title: Am I Black Enough For You? Author: Anita Heiss Genre: Memoir/Non-fiction…
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On Race and Medicine: Insider Perspectives ed. by Richard Garcia (review) American Studies Volume 55, Number 1, 2016 pages 163-164 DOI: 10.1353/ams.2016.0057 David Colón-Cabrera ON RACE AND MEDICINE: Insider Perspectives. Edited by Richard Garcia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2015. The fields of anthropology and sociology, in addition to health sciences, have problematized the topic…
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The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity by Gregory D. Smithers (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 47, Number 2, Autumn 2016 pages 241-242 Tyler Boulware, Associate Professor of History West Virginia University The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity. By Gregory D. Smithers (New Haven, Yale…
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My Name Is Leon by Kit de Waal review – a touching, thought-provoking debut The Guardian 2016-06-03 Bernardine Evaristo Insight and authenticity … Kit de Waal. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian A young vulnerable boy is taken into care after his mother is no longer able to cope Kit de Waal has already garnered…