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 Americans: The Advantages of White Blood Chapter 8 of An Historical Analysis of Skin Color Discrimination in America Springer 2010 200 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5504-3 Chapter: pages 109-126 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5505-0_8 Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University Similar to that of Native Americans, the genesis of victim-group discrimination for biracial Americans…
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Half-Caste (An Excerpt) Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 2, Number 1, (2008) 6 pages Angela Ajayi At about the age of nineteen, a year after I arrived for college in the United States, I stopped thinking of myself as “half-caste.” The word, so loaded in its literal meaning and with its colonial roots, was…
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Alumni Profile • Angela Ajayi ’97 The Calvin Spark The Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Calvin College Fall 2005 Working at the big question Who am I and how do I fit in this world? While every person struggles with these questions, they come to Angela Ajayi ’97 with some particular twists. The daughter…
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‘You Can Get Lost in Cape Town’: Transculturation and Dislocation in Zoë Wicomb’s Literary Works Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 2, Number 3 (2008) 10 pages María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno, Professor of English University of Córdoba In Zoë Wicomb’s novels and short stories, main characters tend to share Wicomb’s coloured condition—mixed-race identity as defined…
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School Counselors’ Perceptions of Biracial Children: A Pilot Study Professional School Counseling American School Counselor Association December 2002 page 120-129 Henry L. Harris, Associate Professor and Chair of Department of Counseling University of North Carolina, Charlotte Biracial children represent a growing segment of America’s increasingly diverse population. According to Kalish (1995), data from the National…
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Race mixture Eugenics Review Volume 25, Number 3 (October 1933) pages 161–166. K. B. Aikman Abridged from a paper read before the Eugenics Society on June 20th, 1933. The immense advances in the last hundred years in the medical sciences and their application have greatly reduced death-rates, not only in civilized countries, but in savage…