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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The Third Musketeer The New York Times 2012-09-14 Leo Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Emeritus Harvard University The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal,and the Real Count of Monte Cristo. By Tom Reiss, 432 pp. Crown Publishers. Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-38246-7. In the 1790s, the son of an aristocratic white father and a black slave…
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Stir Builds Over Actress to Portray Nina Simone The New York Times 2012-09-12 Tanzina Vega In the digital age Hollywood casting decisions leaked from behind closed doors can instantly become fodder for public debate. And when the decision involves race and celebrity, the debate can get very heated. The online media world has been abuzz…
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Biracial and monoracial infant own-race face perception: an eye tracking study Developmental Science Published online: 2012-09-07 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01170.x Sarah E. Gaither Department of Psychology Tufts University Kristin Pauker, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Hawaii Scott P. Johnson, Professor of Psychology University of California, Los Angeles We know that early experience plays a crucial role…
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Job Openings at Lehman College, Bronx, NY (City University of New York) Job Title Department Application Deadline Position Start Date Assistant Professor – African & African American Studies African & African American Studies Open until filled with review of CVs to begin on October 1, 2012. Fall 2013 Associate Professor – African & African American…
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Helen Grant first black female minister in the UK Afro-Europe International Blog 2012-09-09 Helen Grant MP has been made a Minister in David Cameron’s Ministerial reshuffle this September. She is now the first female black cabinet Minister in the UK. Grant, 50, was born in London to an English mother and Nigerian father, but grew…
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Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America (review) Shakespeare Quarterly Volume 63, Number 2 (Summer 2012) pages 244-246 DOI: 10.1353/shq.2012.0017 Virginia Mason Vaughan, Professor of English Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts If you teach Shakespeare’s plays at an American university, college, or secondary school (as I do), and if you’ve ever felt a disconnect between what…
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Brazil Enacts Affirmative Action Law for Universities The New York Times 2012-08-30 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s government has enacted one of the Western Hemisphere’s most sweeping affirmative action laws, requiring public universities to reserve half of their admission spots for the largely poor students in the nation’s public schools…
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Cole Porter Scores An Interracial Couple’s Highs And Lows National Public Radio All Things Considered Music: Mom and Dad’s Record Collection 2012-08-30 NPR Staff As summer winds down, All Things Considered is winding down its series “Music: Mom and Dad’s Record Collection.” For the past few months, the show has asked listeners to tell their…