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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Leonard Darwin Scholarship of the Eugenics Society Nature Volume 138, Number 3496 (1936-11-31) page 756 DOI: 10.1038/138756a0 The Eugenics Society has established a second Leonard Darwin scholarship, which is to be devoted to the investigation of racial crossing. The first holder is J. C. Trevor, a graduate of Oxford in anthropology, who has spent the…
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Bill John Baker named official winner in Cherokee chief election Tusla World 2011-10-13 Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton, World Correspondent TAHLEQUAH – Bill John Baker is now officially principal chief-elect of the Cherokee Nation. About 1:45 p.m. Wednesday, the Cherokee Nation Election Commission certified the results from the tribe’s special election. The certified results show Baker defeating former…
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The Film You Didn’t See – Who’s the Alien, Cowboy? Cultural Weekly 2011-08-25 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Ulli K. Ryder, Visiting Scholar Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Brown University Chances are you didn’t see Cowboys and Aliens. The film won’t get to $100 million box office in…
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Number of multiracial people grows in Oneida County The Observer-Dispatch Utica, New York 2011-07-14 Elizabeth Cooper UTICA — Nisa Duong is part Vietnamese, part black, part American Indian and part white. But the 19-year-old Utica resident said her racial and ethnic identity isn’t at the forefront of her mind, and if it comes up,…
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Are We Content to Let Our DNA Define Us? Diaspora@chinaSMACK 2011-07-12 Ashton J. Liu A Chinese friend once responded harshly when asked, “Are you Japanese?” by a young child who had approached him on the street. His response struck me as strange. After all, my identity was always a topic of discussion. As a child…
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Puerto Rico: Afro-Caribbean and Taíno Identity Repeating Islands: News and commentary on Caribbean culture, literature, and the arts 2011-06-26 Ivette Romero-Cesareo, Professor of Spanish and Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York Note from Steven F. Riley: [The number of 2010 census repondents from Puerto Rico identifiying as two or more races…
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Who Belongs to Whom?: Codes, Property, and Ownership in Madame Charles Reybaud’s “Les Épaves” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Volume 39, Numbers 3 & 4 (Spring-Summer 2011) pages 229-239 E-ISSN: 1536-0172 Print ISSN: 0146-7891 Molly Krueger Enz, Assistant Professor of French South Dakota State University French Romantic writer Madame Charles Reybaud explores the coupling of gender and…