Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America by Ayanna Thompson (Klett review) Theatre Journal Volume 65, Number 2, May 2013 pages 303-304 DOI: 10.1353/tj.2013.0043 Elizabeth Klett, Assistant Professor of Literature University of Houston, Clear Lake Ayanna Thompson’s exciting book analyzes a wide variety of sites for performing, interrogating, and dismantling Shakespeare and race in contemporary…
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Casta Paintings: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico by Ilona Katzew; Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings by Magali M. Carrera The Art Bulletin Volume 88, Number 1 (March, 2006) pages 185-189 Thomas B.F. Cummins, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art Harvard University…
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LAAPFF 2013: Mix-cultural Asians Find Their Roots 8Asians 2013-05-20 Shako Liu One common theme that has been echoing in some of the documentaries presented in Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is that mix-raced Asians either in the states or in an Asian country, or Asian immigrants are trying to find out who they are…
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The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico. [Book Review] The Journal of San Diego History Volume 27, Number 3 (Summer 1981) W. Michael Mathes (1936-2012), Professor of History University of San Francisco The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico. By Colin M. MacLachlan and Jaime E. Rodríguez…
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‘Yokohama Yankee’: a family’s lineage in both Japan and America The Seattle Times Books 2013-04-01 David Takami, Special to The Seattle Times ‘Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan’ by Leslie Helm Chin Music Press, 360 pp. Leslie Helm’s remarkable family memoir begins at a point of personal distress. At a memorial…
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White Without Soap [Review] Australian Womens Book Review Volume 23.1&2 (2011) pages 16-18 Jean Taylor Marguerita Stephens. White Without Soap: Philanthropy, Caste and Exclusion in Colonial Victoria 1835–1888, A Political Economy of Race. Melbourne: Melbourne University Custom Book Centre, 2010. As it says on the frontispiece, White Without Soap was a PhD thesis in the…
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Sheila K. Johnson on Yokohama Yankee Los Angeles Review of Books 2013-03-13 Sheila K. Johnson, Anthropologist, Gerontologist, and Freelance Writer Oh, To Be Japanese! MANY FOREIGNERS have fallen in love with Japan — its physical beauty, its culture, its people. Most of these foreigners have been men, and some have married Japanese women or taken…
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Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 (review) [Sheffer] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 37, Number 4, Winter 2012 DOI: 10.1353/mel.2012.0061 pages 203-205 Jolie A. Sheffer, Associate Professor, English and American Culture Studies Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Julia H. Lee’s Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and…
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Racial Crossings: Race, intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire by Damon Ieremia Salesa (review) Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 14, Number 1, Spring 2013 DOI: 10.1353/cch.2013.0015 Sarah Carter, Professor of History University of Alberta Damon Ieremia Salesa, Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)…