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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Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth and Culture [Hauskeller Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1946-1948 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.870348 Christine Hauskeller, Senior Lecturer of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology University of Exeter, United Kingdom Race and the genetic revolution: science, myth and culture, edited…
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Utopian visions of racial admixture Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1847-1851 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.932409 C. Matthew Snipp, Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Sociology Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Carter, Greg, The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of…
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Documentary reveals Jewish mother’s ‘Little White Lie’ The Times of Israel 2014-08-17 Rebecca Spence Lacey Schwartz’s film about reconciling her hidden black paternity to the Ashkenazi Jewish home she was raised in strikes universal themes SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — When Lacey Schwartz celebrated her bat mitzvah more than two decades ago in her hometown of…
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Brother Mine: The Correspondence of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank by Kathleen Pfeiffer (review) Callaloo Volume 37, Number 3, Summer 2014 pages 735-739 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2014.0094 L. Lamar Wilson Jean Toomer’s Cane remains one of the most enigmatic works that emerged during the last century. In the past three decades, critics have probed auto/biography, psychoanalysis, sociopolitical…
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Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-First Century by Circe Sturm (review) [Steineker] The American Indian Quarterly Volume 38, Number 3, Summer 2014 pages 400-402 DOI: 10.1353/aiq.2014.0028 Rowan Faye Steineker Department of History University of Oklahoma In Becoming Indian, anthropologist Circe Sturm provides another innovative study of Cherokee identity politics to accompany…
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The Leftovers Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2014-08-15 Alexander Chee ‘Everything I Never Told You,’ by Celeste Ng Celeste Ng’s debut novel, “Everything I Never Told You,” is a literary thriller that begins with some stock elements: a missing girl, a lake, a local bad boy who was one of the last to…
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“Little White Lie”: Black And Jewish Filmmaker Documents Growing Up Believing She Was White Madame Noire 2014-08-04 Veronica Wells Most of us know from a very early age that we’re Black. It happens so early that many of us can’t remember a specific conversation or moment where we learned this truth. But that wasn’t the…