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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Jean Toomer and Cane: “Mixed-Blood” Impossibilities Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory Volume 64, Number 4, Winter 2008 E-ISSN: 1558-9595, Print ISSN: 0004-1610 DOI: 10.1353/arq.0.0025 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California Even though Jean Toomer was black and white, his fascination with miscegenation in…
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Meet the New Faculty: Jennifer Brody Duke Today The Duke Community’s Daily News and Information Resource Duke University 2008-10-22 Andrea Fereshteh Exploring the intersection of race, gender and art Durham, North Carolina — From a very early age, Jennifer Brody was curious about the intersection of art, gender and race. She recalls a time as…
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Fort Red Border Sarabande Books 2009-08-01 88 pages Trim: 9 x 6 Paper ISBN: 978-1-932511-74-1 Kiki Petrosino, Professor of Poetry University of Virginia Kiki Petrosino has audacity to spare. She devotes the entire first section of her debut collection of poems to a putative affair the speaker is conducting with an imaginary Robert Redford. In…
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The Amerasian Problem: Blood, Duty, and Race International Relations Volume 21, Number 1 (March 2007) pages 86-102 DOI: 10.1177/0047117807073769 Sue-Je Lee Gage, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Ithaca University The concept of ‘mixed blood’ is not a new one; however, it was not until 1982 that an unprecedented policy entitled ‘The Amerasian Act’ was created by…
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The Color of Testamentary Freedom Southern Methodist University Law Review Volume 62 p. 1783 2009 Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Wills that prioritize the interests of nontraditional families over collateral heirs test courts’ dedication to observing the posthumous wishes of testators. Collateral heirs who object to will provisions that redraw the…
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Slaves in the Family: Testamentary Freedom and Interracial Deviance 2008 50 pages Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University This Article addresses the deviance of interracial sexuality acknowledged in testamentary documents. The language of wills calls into question the authority of probate and family law by forcing issues of deviance into the public…