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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Exploring Grays in a Black-and-White World Miller-McCune 2011-07-19 Julia M. Klein Two new books explore the intersection of race and identity in America by investigating families whose biracial members might—or might not—“pass” as white. Defining racial identity in the United States has always been a fraught enterprise, involving shifting intersections of law, custom, class, ancestry…
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The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in America [Review: Eubanks] The Washington Independent Review of Books 2011-07-04 W. Ralph Eubanks, Director of Publishing at the Library of Congress Author of Ever Is a Long Time and The House at the End of the Road Julie Winch, The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in…
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Multiracial Teens Launch A ‘Latte Rebellion’ Tell Me More National Public Radio 2011-07-15 Michel Martin, Host “You’re half Chinese and half European, I’m half Indian, a quarter Mexican and a quarter Irish. We’re mixed up. We’re not really one or the other ethnically. We’re like human lattes.” So explains Asha, the main character in Sarah…
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Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada [Review] Quill and Quire – Canada’s Magazine of Book News and Reviews October 2001 Hugh Hodges, Associate Professor of English Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario Lawrence Hill, Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada, Harper Collins Canada, September 2001, 256 pages,…
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family [Review] The Journal of American History Volume 98, Issue 1 (2011) Pages 154-155 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jar004 Brenda E. Stevenson, Professor of History University of California, Los Angeles The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. By Annette Gordon-Reed. (New York: Norton, 2008. 802 pp. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-393-06477-3. Paper, ISBN 978-0-393-33776-1.)…