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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Filling in the Chasm Between Black and White The Siskiyou Southern Oregon University 2006-02-27 Shannon Luders-Manuel Last week I had the pleasure of attending the lecture by James McBride, having read his memoir a few years ago when I was at my most-heightened search for identity. Without retaining much of the details of his life…
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“Being a Half-breed”: Discourses of Race and Cultural Syncreticity in the Works of Three Metis Women Writers Canadian Literature “Native, Individual, State” Number 144, Spring, 1995 pages 82-96 Jodi Lundgren In his introduction to All My Relations, Thomas King asserts that “being Native is a matter of race rather than something more transitory such as…
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African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation University of Oklahoma Press 2007 368 pages, 6″ x 9″ Illustrations: 15 color illustrations, 4 maps Hardcover ISBN: 9780806138152 Paperback ISBN: 9780806168951 Gary Zellar, Assistant Professor of History University of Saskatchewan A narrative history of the African Creek community Among the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste—black people—and…
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White Parents – Black Children: How Parents Contribute to the Development of their Biracial Child’s Identity American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Hilton San Francisco San Francisco, California 2009-08-09 20 pages Cristina Ortiz University of Chicago When a biracial child has one black and one white parent, society tends to identify the child as “black” or…