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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What Is Monoracial Privilege? (Hint: If You Are One Race Only You’ve Got It…) Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-01-17 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom The definition of the word monoracial is to be ‘composed of or involving members of one race only’. Monoracial privilege therefore refers to the advantages and benefits that come with…
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The Dougla Defect Without Wax 2013-12-15 Sara Bharrat Dougla Defect? Indian speaks to a Dougla woman about her Dougla baby Indian: The baby getting nice now. Now he complexion comin’ lil clear. —(Rochelle Etwaroo photo and testimony) For Rochelle Etwaroo: the hybrid of two great people and a seed of hope. The Dougla Defect is…
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Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation Basic Books 2016-04-26 416 pages Hardcover ISBN 13: 978-0-465-01841-3 Nicholas Guyatt, University Lecturer in American History Cambridge University The surprising and counterintuitive origins of America’s racial crisis Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that “all men are…
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“Not a Moor exactly”: Shakespeare, Serial, and Modern Constructions of Race Shakespeare Quarterly Volume 67, Number 1, 2016 pages 30-50 DOI: 10.1353/shq.2016.0009 Vanessa Corredera, Assistant Professor of English Andrews University, Berrien Springs Michigan As scholars of early modern literature know, Renaissance constructions of alterity were inconsistent and varied. This critical consensus regarding the fluidity of…
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The Pleasures of Taxonomy: Casta Paintings, Classification, and Colonialism The William and Mary Quarterly Volume 73, Number 3, July 2016, 3rd series pages 427-466 Rebecca Earle, Professor School of Comparative American Studies University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom A new model for thinking about the socioracial categories depicted in casta paintings (remarkable eighteenth-century Spanish American…
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From White to Yellow: The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300-1735 McGill-Queen’s University Press November 2014 712 Pages, 6 x 9 32 b&w photos ISBN: 9780773544550 Rotem Kowner, Professor Department of Asian Studies University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel An examination of the evolution of European racial views of the Japanese. When Europeans first…
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Michaela Angela Davis Strips Down For The “What’s Underneath Project,” Talks Racism, Insecurities Madame Noire 2016-08-22 Brande Victorian, Managing Editor Michaela Angela Davis has long been everything and then some to us, and our opinion of the writer, culture critique, and activist has only skyrocketed after watching her strip down for StyleLikeU’s highly regarded “What’s…
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‘War Brides of Japan’ To Take Focus in New Documentary NBC News 2016-08-10 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Journalist and filmmaker Yayoi Lena Winfrey is looking for more Japanese “war brides” to interview as she completes the filming for her feature-length documentary film, “War Brides of Japan.” With many of these women in their mid-80s, Winfrey said…
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Raising My Black Son Brian, Child: the magazine for thinking mothers 2016-08-09 Suanne Schafer Twenty years ago, I adopted an interracial child—I’ll call him M—thinking a mother’s love could overcome all barriers, even racial ones. Twenty years later, I’m not sure I did my son any favors. I’m a white mom trying to figure out…