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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Biracial and Biethnic Identity Development in Vietnamese/Caucasian Adults Alliant International University, San Francisco Bay May 2011 75 pages Publication Number: AAT 3467139 ISBN: 9781124783406 Tien Vu A Clinical Dissertation Proposal Presented to the Faculty of The California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco Bay Campus Alliant International University The current study explored factors that contribute…
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Variability in Race Hybrids American Anthropologist Volume 40, Issue 4 (October-December 1938) pages 680–697 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1938.40.4.02a00090 Wilson D. Wallis In his revised edition of The Mind of Primitive Man, Professor Boas warns against assuming “on the basis of a low variability that a type is pure, for we know that some mixed types are remarkably…
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Ambiguous Belongings: Negotiating Hybridity in Cape Town, 1940s-1990s Kronos: Journal of Cape History Number 25, Pre-millennium issue (1998/1999) pages 227-238 Sean Field University of Cape Town You know you are in-between. You, you don’t fit with the Africans. You don’t fit with the coloureds. You live a normal life, but, you know you don’t fit…
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Protest and Accommodation: Ambiguities in the Racial Politics of the APO, 1909-1923 Kronos: Journal of Cape History Number 20 (November 1993) pages 92-106 Mohamed Adhikari, Associate Professor of Historical Studies University of Cape Town Historical writing on the coloured community of South Africa has tended to accept coloured identity as given and to portray it…
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More metro Atlantans say they’re multiracial: Fast-growing segment represents a cultural shift that’s nationwide Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2011-09-03 Bo Emerson When Evelyn Brown-Wilder was growing up in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in the 1950s, life was a matter of warring opposites. Though some of her ancestors were white and her face was pale, the law said she was…
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“Speaking from the Margins: The Voice of the ‘Other’ in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay” studies Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay as poets who identify and represent some key forms of “otherness” may take in the British society of the 1980s and the 1990s.
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This research monograph analyses and describes how multiracial undergraduates have come to think about race and racism.
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Review: ‘Spit Back a Boy’ by Iain Haley Pollock BuzzleGoose.com 2011-09-01 Nick Defina A student of MIT once remarked that attending that particular institution as an undergraduate was much like taking a drink of water from a firehose. The same could be said about reading Iain Haley Pollock’s collection of blistering poems, selected by Elizabeth…
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An Interview with UW’s Lynet Uttal: Making the Asian American experience visible through learning Asian Wisconzine Volume 7, Number 9 (September 2011) Heidi M. Pascual Part 1 of 2 It was “quite an accident of fate” that Lynet Uttal became the director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Asian American Studies Program. Although Uttal has been…
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The Invitation That Never Came: Mary Seacole After the Crimea History Today Volume 55, Issue 2 (2005) Helen Rappaport Helen Rappaport on Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale and the Post-Crimean War reputation of the woman recently voted ‘greatest black Briton’: Mary Seacole. In the summer of 1856, after the last British troops had made their weary…