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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Elizabeth Fenwick Adams – Did she or didn’t she? A family history mystery. Historic Places in South Jersey 2011-03-07 J. Wright Twice this past week on gloriously sunny days that smelled of spring, friends and I headed down the highway on the trail of the mystery of Elizabeth Fenwick Adams and her alleged connection with…
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Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black Plume, an imprint of Penguin February 1996 304 pages 5.35 x 7.95in Paperback ISBN: 9780452275331 ePub eBook ISBN: 9781440665813 Adobe eBook ISBN: 9781440665813 Gregory Howard Williams, President University of Cincinnati Awards Los Angeles Times Book Prize Friends of…
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University of Cincinnati president has a unique perspective on his life as a black man Cleveland Plain Dealer 2011-09-11 Karen Farkas CLEVELAND, Ohio—Gregory Williams says that in the five decades since he learned he was black and moved into a tarpaper shack with his black grandmother instead of a middle-class home with his white grandmother,…
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The Mixed-Race Experience: Treatment of Racially Miscategorized Individuals under Title VII Asian American Law Review University of California Volume 12 (2005) Ken Nakasu Davison This article argues that the static legal construction of race has the dangerous potential to permit cases of racially-based discrimination, thus circumventing its prohibition in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.…
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Developing critical race theory to study race and racism in China’s media: a case study of the chocolate girl’s bittersweet stardom on Go Oriental Angel California State University, Sacramento Summer 2011 105 pages Siok Kwan Teoh Submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in COMMUNICATION STUDIES This study…
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Choosing to be Multiracial in America: The Sociopolitical Implications of the “Check All That Apply” Approach to Race in the 2000 U.S. Census Berkeley La Raza Law Journal Volume 21 (2011) Alaina R. Walker I. INTRODUCTION Race in America has long been a contentious subject, especially when the government has been involved. Race can mean…
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Phil Wilkes Fixico to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #225-Phil Wilkes Fixico When: Wednesday, 2011-09-14,…
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Family Histories of ‘Passing’ from Black to White Documented in Book Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2011-09-06 Katti Gray In the summer of 1993, as American-born Daniel Sharfstein registered Blacks to cast their first ballot in race-riven South Africa, he volunteered alongside a South African woman, who professed to be as authentically African as any…
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Culture: The face in the mirror is mestizo San Antonio Current San Antonia, Texas 2006-02-22 Elaine Wolff, Current Editor Plaza de Armas A two-day roundtable takes a big eraser to identity lines “I’m looking for the mestizo eye, the mestizo subjunctive, the mestizo soul,” says author John Phillip Santos as we wander through Retratos: 2,000…