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: Book/Video Reviews
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‘Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye,’ by Marie Mutsuki Mockett Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2015-01-23 Richard Lloyd Parry Mockett, Marie Mutsuki, Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015), 316 pp. Among the many shocking things about tsunamis…
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Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the British Empire [Paterson Review] The British Scholar Society Book of The Month November 2014 Lachy Paterson University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Salesa, Damon Ieremia, Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). 308 pp. $US 45 (paperback). Race has always…
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China Dolls by Lisa See Discover Nikkei 2015-01-15 Leslie Yamaguchi Fans of best-selling author Lisa See will not be surprised by her diverse background, the source of the unique perspective readers inevitably find in each of her novels. Born in Paris but raised and residing in Los Angeles for most of her life, she is…
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A True History Full of Romance: Mixed marriages and ethnic identity in Dutch art, news media, and popular culture (1883–1955) by Marga Altena (review) Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 15, Number 3, Winter 2014 DOI: 10.1353/cch.2014.0039 Eveline Buchheim, Researcher NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Altena, Marga, A…
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‘A Tale of Two Plantations,’ by Richard S. Dunn Sunday Rook Review The New York Times 2015-01-02 Greg Grandin, Professor of History New York University Dunn, Richard S., A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014). For enslaved peoples in the New World, it was…
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‘Everything I Never Told You’ by Celeste Ng: Unspoken Thoughts About Being Mixed-Race Hapa Mama: Asian Fusion Family and Food 2014-12-28 Grace Hwang Lynch Celeste Ng’s debut novel Everything I Never Told You: A Novel has been at the top of many best books of 2014 lists — and for good reason. It’s a quick…
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‘Race Unmasked’ explores science’s racial past, present Science News: Magazine of the Society for Science & The Public 2014-11-30 Magazine Issue: Volume 186, Number 12, December 13, 2014 Bryan Bello, Editorial Assistant Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the 20th Century. Michael Yudell. Columbia University Press, $40 It’s 1921 and the American Museum of Natural…
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Lacey Schwartz came to terms with her true racial identity in ‘Little White Lie’ The New York Daily News 2014-11-30 Justin Rocket Silverman, Senior Features Writer Documentary film chronicles how she grew up believing she was a white Jewish girl and then learned her biological father was black Lacey Schwartz didn’t know she was black…