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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Race, Ethnicity, and Difference in a Contemporary Carioca Pop Music Scene Diagonal: Journal of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music Volume 6 (2010) [Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Brazilian Music (c1600-Present)] 16 pages Frederick Moehn, Assistant Professor of Music; Affiliate, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University…
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Petitioning subjects: miscegenation in Okinawa from 1945 to 1952 and the crisis of sovereignty Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Volume 11, Issue 3 (2010) pages 355-374 DOI: 10.1080/14649373.2010.484172 Annmaria Shimabuku, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature University of California, Riverside This paper tells a story about miscegenation between US military personnel and Okinawan women from 1945-1952, which includes…
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Hidden in plain sight: defying juridical racialization in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Volume 1, Issue 4 (2004) Pages 313-334 DOI: 10.1080/1479142042000270458 Nadine Ehlers, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Georgetown University This article examines the intersectionality of law and race to argue that law, in its broadest understanding, has played a…
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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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How to read Michelle Obama Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1 & 2 (Special Issue: Obama and Race) (2011) Pages 95 – 117 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.563149 Maria Lauret, Reader in American Studies University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom Michelle Obama’s role as the first African American First Lady is more than merely symbolic. Her self-representation…