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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‘Everything I Never Told You’ Exposed In Biracial Family’s Loss Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-06-28 Arun Rath All Things Considered It’s May, 1977, in small-town Ohio, and the Lee family is sitting down at breakfast. James is Chinese-American and Marilyn is white, and they have three children —…
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Little White Lie,’ Lacey Schwartz’s Film About Self-Discovery
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Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between race and place ed. by Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe, and: Labor and Love in Guatemala: The eve of independence by Catherine Komisaruk (review) Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 15, Number 2, Summer 2014 DOI: 10.1353/cch.2014.0025 Julia A. Gibbings, Assistant Professor of History University Of Manitoba,…
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Ghosts of Camptown MELUS: Multi-Ethnic LIterature of the United States Volume 39, Issue 3 (Fall 2014) pages 49-67 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlu025 Grace Kyungwon Hong, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles This essay engages the deployment of form in Heinz Insu Fenkl’s Memories of My Ghost Brother (1996), focusing…
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Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial. Ralina L. Joseph. [Cannon] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic LIterature of the United States Volume 39, Issue 3 (Fall 2014) pages 207-209 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlu028 Sarita Cannon, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature San Francisco State University Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional…
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Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference by Anne Pollock (review) Bulletin of the History of Medicine Volume 88, Number 2, Summer 2014 pages 393-395 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2014.0025 Lundy Braun, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Africana Studies Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Anne Pollock, Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference…
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Thanks, Belle, it’s nice to see a face like mine on screen The Guardian (The Observer) 2014-06-07 Ashley Clark In giving top billing to Gugu Mbatha-Raw, the film Belle makes a real contribution to raising awareness of the mixed-race experience My heart leaps whenever I see the poster for Amma Asante’s new film, Belle, high…
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Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century. Colleen C. O’Brien. [Orihuela] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic LIterature of the United States Published Online: 2014-06-05 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlu027 Sharada Balachandran Orihuela, Assistant Professor of English University of Maryland Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century. Colleen C. O’Brien. Charlottesville: University…
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Almost Free: A Story About Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia by Eva Sheppard Wolf (review) [Lee] Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Volume 111, Number 2, Spring 2013 pages 252-254 DOI: 10.1353/khs.2013.0034 Deborah A. Lee, PhD, Independent Historian Stanardsville, Virginia Wolf, Eva Sheppard, Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia…