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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Public Ceremonies and Mulatto Identity in Viceregal Lima: A Colonial Reenactment of the Fall of Troy (1631) Colonial Latin American Review Volume 16, Issue 2 (2007) pages 179-201 DOI: 10.1080/10609160701644490 José R. Jouve-Martín, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada Colonial Spanish America was a highly ritualized society. From single events to…
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Racial group boundaries and identities: People of ‘mixed‐race’ in slavery across the Americas Slavery & Abolition Volume 15, Issue 3 (1994) pages 17-37 DOI: 10.1080/01440399408575137 Stephen Small, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley One of the fundamental developments to arise as a result of the settling of the Americas by Europeans…
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Cultural Representation in Native America AltaMira Press August 2006 192 pages Cloth 0-7591-0984-2 / 978-0-7591-0984-1 Paper 0-7591-0985-0 / 978-0-7591-0985-8 Edited by: Andrew J. Jolivétte, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies San Francisco State University Today as in the past there are many cultural and commercial representations of American Indians that, thoughtlessly or otherwise, negatively shape…
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Webinar: Mixed Identity and the Arts Runnymede Trust 2011-07-05, 10:30-12:30Z Runnymede Trust is hosting an online seminar (webinar) discussing mixed identity and the arts. The webinar will take the form of a live-streamed discussion between the photographer and visual artist Mark Sealy, the arts consultant and creative producer Samina Zahir and playwright Roy Williams. Their…
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A Mixed Race Take On What It Means To Be ‘Free’ Tell Me More National Public Radio 2011-06-24 NPR Staff A lonely young New Yorker finds a puppy while jogging. A middle class couple tries navigating the treacherous waters of admission to a sought-after preschool. A new mother grows jealous of the chic and thin…
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White women’s complicity and the taboo: Faulkner’s layered critique of the “miscegenation complex” Women’s Studies Volume 22, Issue 4 (1993) pages 497-506 DOI: 10.1080/00497878.1993.9978998 Karen M. Andrews Kobe College, Japan In Faulkner’s social milieu, the proscription against miscegenation between white women and black men was so deeply ingrained as to be “common sense.” White male…
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Why this Supreme Court could be the best hope for gay-marriage advocates The Washington Post 2011-06-24 Justin Driver, Assistant Professor of Law University of Texas, Austin Eight years ago Sunday, the Supreme Court handed down a significant victory for gay equality when it declared anti-sodomy laws unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas. In response, Justice Antonin…
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‘Horror and beauty in rare combination’: The miscegenate fictions of Octavia butler Women: A Cultural Review Volume 7, Issue 1 (1996) pages 28-38 DOI: 10.1080/09574049608578256 Roger Luckhurst, Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature Birkbeck, University of London Octavia Butler’s work is virtually unknown, and yet her ten novels and one short story collection constitute an…