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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The erasure of the Afro element of mestizaje in modern Mexico: the coding of visibly black mestizos according to a white aesthetic in and through the discourse on nation during the cultural phase of the Mexican Revolution, 1920-1968 University of British Columbia September 2001 166 pages Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Associate Professor of Spanish North…
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Mixed Messages [Theatrical Play] Written by Michelle La Flamme University of British Columbia with help from Minelle Mahtani, Associate Professor of Geography and Planning University of Toronto Burcu Ozdemir Mixed Messages is a satirical look at the exclusive rules for membership in academic spaces and a jab at racial identity politics in the “mixed race”…
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Living, writing and staging racial hybridity University of British Columbia January 2006 380 pages 37 photographs/illustrations Lisa Michelle La Flamme A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Contemporary Canadian literature and drama that features racial hybridity represents the racially hybrid…
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The politics of everyday hybridity: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth Wasafiri: The Magazine Of International Contemporary Writing Volume 18, Issue 39 Summer 2003 pages 11-17 DOI: 10.1080/02690050308589837 Laura Moss, Associate Professor of English University of British Columbia Read the entire article here.
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White Teeth: A Novel Vintage an imprint of Random House 2001-06-12 464 pages ISBN: 978-0-375-70386-7 (0-375-70386-1) Zadie Smith On New Year’s morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie–working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt–is calling…