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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The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930 [Joseph Review] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Published online: 2014-01-26 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt079 Ralina L. Joseph, Associate Professor of Communication University of Washington The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930. Jolie A. Sheffer. New Brunswick…
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Detecting Winnifred Eaton MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Published online: 2014-01-16 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt078 Jinny Huh, Assistant Professor of English University of Vermont In her recent introduction to Winnifred Eaton’s Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model (1916), Karen E. H. Skinazi explores the relationship between racial ambiguity—that of both the anonymous author and…
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Editorial January 2014: On Reading Two Recent Memoirs by Afro-Germans The Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) January 2014 Gundolf Graml, Associate Professor of German and Director of German Studies Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia Two recent memoirs by German authors with an African connection emphasize that German history cannot be written without including the…
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Passing Strange The New York Times 2007-10-21 Joyce Johnson In 1855, Henry Broyard, a young white New Orleans carpenter, decided to pass as black in order to be legally entitled to marry Marie Pauline Bonée, the well-educated daughter of colored refugees from Haiti, who was about to have his child; their marriage license describes them…
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What Comes Naturally: A Racially Inclusive Look at Miscegenation Law Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 31, Number 3, 2010 pages 15-21 DOI: 10.1353/fro.2010.0020 Jacki Thompson Rand, Professor of History; American Indian and Native Studies University of Iowa In What Comes Naturally Peggy Pascoe interrogates the U.S. racial regime through a study of civil…
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Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist by G. Reginald Daniel (review) Hispanic Review Volume 82, Number 1, Winter 2014 pages 116-119 DOI: 10.1353/hir.2014.0008 Mércia Santana Flannery, Lecturer of Portuguese Romance Languages Department University of Pennsylvania G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist, 336 pages, hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-05246-5.…
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The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television [Galvin Review] Film Ireland Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland 2014-01-13 Steven Galvin, Editor Dr Zélie Asava introduces her book The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television, a critical investigation of race in contemporary Irish visual…
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The story behind Dido Belle – the bi-racial Londoner who helped end slavery in Britain London Evening Standard 2014-01-08 Susannah Butter Susannah Butter tells the tale of Dido Belle, ahead of the release of a film about her extraordinary life starring Tom Felton and Miranda Richardson. Among the many aristocratic faces gazing out of frames…
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Struck by Lightning? Interracial Intimacy and Racial Justice Human Rights Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2, May 2003 pages 528-562 DOI: 10.1353/hrq.2003.0017 Kevin R. Johnson, Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies University of California, Davis Kristina L. Burrows Rachel F. Moran, Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance (Chicago and…
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Chinese in Latin America H-Soz-u-Kult Außereuropäische Geschichte 2013-12-13 Dorothea A. L. Martin, Professor of History Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina Delgado, Grace: Making the Chinese Mexican. Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2012. ISBN 978-0-8047-7814-5; 304 S.; € 49,93. Look Lai, Walton; Chee-Beng, Tan (Hrsg.): The Chinese…