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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Blending together The Stanford Daily Stanford University 2011-05-05 Ashley Menzies These students are part of the growing country-wide phenomenon of individuals who identify themselves as “mixed race.” The number of people who check both the black and white boxes has increased by 134 percent to 1.8 million since the 2000 census, the first time it…
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Looking at the history of racial thinking, “Becoming Yellow” explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race.
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Carlos Hoyt 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 and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #204 – Carlos Hoyt When: Wednesday, 2011-05-04,…
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Secret Asian Woman Stage and Studio with Dmae Roberts 2011-03-03 Independent Producer Dmae Roberts presents Secret Asian Woman, a half-hour personal exploration of identity and Mixed Race. Through her personal story, Dmae charts four decades of a search by multiracial peoples for a name. The politics of calling out racism has changed through the years…
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Has perception of biracial women changed in modern times? SMU Daily Campus Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 2011-05-03 Victoria Ahmadi As a biracial woman myself, I find it essential that society become better informed of the life-altering consequences that biracial individuals are forced to deal with. While the media’s perceptions of identity shift, young women…
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Mar Gallego. Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity, Politics and Textual Strategies [Review] African American Review Volume 38 (Winter 2004) pages 720-723 Mar Gallego. Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity, Politics and Textual Strategies. Hamburg: Lit Verlag Munster, 2003. 214 pp. Zhou Yupei Until very recently, novels of passing that appeared during the…
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The Mule as Metaphor in the Fiction of Charles Waddell Chesnutt Theory and Practice in English Studies Volume 4 (2005): Proceedings from the Eighth Conference of British, American and Canadian Studies. Brno: Masarykova univerzita Christopher E. Koy, Faculty of Arts University of West Bohemia, Plzen The term “mulatto,” meaning the offspring of one black parent…
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The Modern Mulatto: A Comparative Analysis of the Social and Legal Positions of Mulattoes in the Antebellum South and the Intersex in Contemporary America Columbia Journal of Gender and Law Volume 15, Number 3 (September 2006) Marie-Amélie George, Associate Lawyer Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Recognizing new social forces working against the “correction”…