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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There is no stable ground to stand on in “Black No More.” Its irony and merciless satire steadfastly resist the anthropological gaze of the reader. It is a novel in whiteface. And while black literature is almost always read as either autobiography or sociology, Schuyler’s work can be read as neither.
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Philosophers Naomi Zack of the University of Oregon, Rebecca Tuvel of Rhodes College, and Diarmuid Costello of the University of Warwick discuss the ways in which Adrian Piper’s art interrogates racial identity, focusing on specific works as well as Piper’s own writings about race, “Passing for White, Passing for Black” and Escape to Berlin: A…
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This article will criticize this binary, detailing a theory of race in which colonialism and racism are prior to racial formation, following Patrick Wolfe and Michael Omi and Howard Winant.
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Black on the Outside, White on the Inside: Peter Abelard’s Use of Race Critical Philosophy of Race Volume 6, Issue 2, 2018 pages 135-163 DOI: 10.5325/critphilrace.6.2.0135 Colleen Mccluskey, Professor of Philosophy Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri In his reply to Heloise’s complaints in the fourth of the so-called personal letters, Peter Abelard (a twelfth-century…
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“The Existence of the Mixed Race Damnés” is an interdisciplinary and intersectional study of the mixed-race subject in the Americas and the rise of oppositional consciousness with a consideration of not only race, but also colonialism.
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Transracialism, defined as both experiencing oneself as, and BEING, a race other than the race assigned to one by society, does not exist…