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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Multiracial-heritage awareness and personal affiliation: Development and validation of a new measure to assess identity in people of mixed race descent Fordham University 2003-03-05 222 pages Publication ID: AAT 3098135 SooJean Choi-Misailidis Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Psychology at Fordham University…
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Relation of multiracial identity statuses to psychosocial functioning and life satisfaction State University of New York, Albany 2007 129 pages Publication Number: AAT 3272360 ISBN: 9780549120537 Krista Marguerite Damann The current “multiracial baby boom” (i.e., the steady increase in this population as well as in the ability to identify them from census data) underscores the…
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Multiracial Identity Week at Brown University Multiracial Identity Week Brown Univeristy 2010-10-24 through 2010-10-31 Featured Event: Convocation with Rebecca Walker Rebecca Walker, one of Time magazine’s 50 most influential leaders of her generation, will give the opening address for the Third World Center’s Multiracial Identity Week. The author of three anthologies and two memoirs, including…
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Nella Larsen and the Veil of Race American Literary History Volume 9, Number 2 (Summer, 1997) pages 329-349 George Hutchinson People see what they want to see, and then they’ll claim you. Not claim you, but label you. Because it’s not really about claiming you. The white people don’t want you around. You’re not really…
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The Influence of Bob Marley’s Absent, White Father The Dread Library Essays from the University of Vermont Class, Rhetoric of Reggae Music 2002-04-30 Scott Gurtman My fadda was a guy yunno, from England here, yunno? Him was like…like you can read it yunno, it’s one o’dem slave stories: white guy get the black woman and…
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Douglass, Ellison and Marley lived on racial frontiers. Their interactions with mixed audiences made them key figures in an interracial consciousness and culture, integrative ancestors who can be claimed by more than one group.
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The Population Variance of the Proportion of Genetic Admixture in Human Intergroup Hybrids Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences December 1971 Volume 68, Number 12 pages 3168–3169 PMCID: PMC389614 T. Edward Reed, Professor of Zoology and Anthropology; Associate Professor of Paediatrics University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada For each individual in a human hybrid population…
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Caucasian Genes in American Negroes Science (1969-08-22) Volume 165 pages 762-768 DOI: 10.1126/science.165.3895.762 T. Edward Reed, Professor of Zoology and Anthropology; Associate Professor of Paediatrics University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Measurement of non-African ancestry is difficult, but it is worthwhile for several genetic reasons. It is very difficult to describe the genetic history of a…