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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Hapa Capsulizes Painful Moments from 2016 Asian America in Less than 90 Seconds AsAmNews 2016-11-27 Louis Chan, AsAmNews National Correspondent A popular new video out less than a week freezes in time moments in 2016 that highlight the racism and the persistent whitewashing the Asian American community faced throughout the year. The short A-woke is…
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For Interracial Couples, Growing Acceptance, With Some Exceptions The New York Times 2016-11-26 Brooke Lea Foster When I was a new mother living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 2010, I often forgot that my infant son, Harper, didn’t look like me. As I pushed him around the neighborhood, I thought of him…
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Biracial Identity Development: A Case of Black-Korean Biracial Individuals in Korea International Journal Multicultural Education Volume 18, Number 3 (2016) pages 40-57 DOI: 10.18251/ijme.v18i3.1193 Hyein Amber Kim, Lecturer in Korean Language University of Washington This study examines two cases of Black-Korean biracial individuals and 4 Black-Korean biracial public figures who were playing influential roles in…
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Blackness, Science, and Circulation of Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Luso-Brazilian World and the United States The Eighteenth Century Volume 57, Number 3, Fall 2016 pages 303-324 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2016.0020 Bruno Carvalho, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Princeton University It has become increasingly common for scholars to locate the eighteenth century as a turning point in…
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Krazy racial rules: New biography of cartoonist George Herriman The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 2016-11-25 Doug MacCash, Arts and Entertainment Writer New Orleans-born Krazy Kat cartoonist George Herriman (Photo by Will Connell, courtesy Michael Tisserand) “Krazy: A Life in Black and White,” the biography of Crescent City-born newspaper cartoonist extraordinaire George Herriman (1880-1944) is an…
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Tall, pale and handsome: why more Asian men are using skin-whitening products The Conversation 2016-11-24 Gideon Lasco, Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Anthropology Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) University of Amsterdam Jose, 19, is a college student in Puerto Princesa City, Philippines. On a regular school day, after he wakes up, he takes a…
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Genevieve Gaignard tackles race, class and identity at the California African American Museum The Los Angeles Times 2016-11-17 Deborah Vankin, Contact Reporter Genevieve Gaignard’s identity-bending “Extra Value (After Venus)” (2016). (Genevieve Gaignard / Shulamit Nazarian) Growing up in the working-class mill town of Orange, Mass., Genevieve Gaignard wrestled with her identity. She was the fair-skinned…
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Spiegel & Grau (an imprint of Random House) 2016-11-15 204 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0399588174 Trevor Noah The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from…