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: Philosophy
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Into the box and out of the picture: The rhetorical management of the mulatto in the Jim Crow era Duke University 2005 573 pages Publication Number: AAT 3250085 Jené Lee Schoenfeld Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English in the Graduate School…
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Miscegenation’s ‘dusky human consequences’ Postcolonial Studies Volume 5, Issue 3, 2002 pages 297-307 DOI: 10.1080/1368879022000032801 Jacqueline Lo, Professor and Director of the ANU Centre for European Studies Austrailian National University Race is defined not by its purity but rather by the impurity conferred upon it by a system of domination. Bastard and mixed-blood are the…
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Toward a Philosophy of Race in Education University of Tennessee, Knoxville May 2011 221 pages Corey V. Kittrell A Dissertation Presented for the Doctorate of Philosophy Degree The University of Tennessee, Knoxville There is a tendency in education theory to place the focus on the consequences of racial hegemony (racism, Eurocentric education, low performance by…
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The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race Critical Inquiry Volume 12, Number 1, “Race,” Writing, and Difference (Autumn, 1985) pages 21-37 Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy Princeton University Introduction Contemporary biologists are not agreed on the question of whether there are any human races, despite the widespread…
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‘Black Is’ and ‘Black Ain’t’: Performative Revisions of Racial ‘Crisis’ Culture, Theory and Critique Volume 47, Issue 2 (2006) Pages 149-163 DOI: 10.1080/14735780600961619 Nadine Ehlers, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Georgetown University Race is rigorously policed through, and predicated on, a crisis of maintaining a claim to supposed racial ontology. The language of crisis…
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Nadine Ehlers examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the U.S. imaginary and asks, how do individuals become racial subjects?
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The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity Fordham University Press May 2011 256 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780823234509; Hardback ISBN: 9780823234493 Michael J. Monahan, Associate Professor of Philosophy Marquette University How does our understanding of the reality (or lack thereof ) of race as a category of being affect our understanding of racism…
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Responsible Mixed Race Politics How do identities matter? Stanford University 2005-01-13 Presentation by: Ronald Sundstrom, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of San Francisco The harshest critics of mixed-race have claimed that the identity is self-indulgent and irresponsible, because it evades or, worse, is complicit in racism. Such strident condemnations of mixed-race identity are…