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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Bottles, Bubbles, and Blood: Jean Toomer and the Limits of Racial Epidermalism Modernism/modernity Volume 22, Number 2, April 2015 pages 279-302 DOI: 10.1353/mod.2015.0041 Catherine Keyser, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature University of South Carolina In an unpublished 1935 memoir, Jean Toomer reminisces about his job as a soda jerk in high school and…
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Marquess of Bath’s Longleat heir has not spoken to his mother since she claimed his marriage to his half-Nigerian wife would ruin ‘400 years of bloodline’ The Daily Mail 2015-09-06 Emma Glanfield Ceawlin Thynn has fallen out with his mother over wife Emma McQuiston 41-year-old claims his mother, Marchioness of Bath, questioned marriage She apparently…
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Suit filed over mix-up at Downers Grove sperm bank is dismissed The Chicago Tribune 2015-09-03 Clifford Ward A judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Ohio woman against a west suburban sperm bank whose clerical error resulted in the birth of her mixed-race daughter. DuPage County Judge Ronald Sutter tossed the suit after lawyers…
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An Interview with Celeste Ng, Author of Everything I Never Told You The Toast 2015-09-02 Nicole S. Chung, Managing Editor Celeste Ng is the author of the novel Everything I Never Told You, which was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014, Amazon’s #1 Best Book of 2014, and…
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Are You Sensitive to Interracial Children’s Special Identity Needs? Young Children Volume 42, Number 2 (January 1987) pages 53-59 Francis Wardle Red Rocks Community College, Colorado Early childhood educators continually adjust to families they serve. Educators must provide for children not living with their natural parents, children from abusive families, children who rarely see their…
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The Time of the Multiracial American Literary History Volume 27, Number 3, Fall 2015 pages 549-556 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajv026 Habiba Ibrahim, Associate Professor of English University of Washington, Seattle Habiba Ibrahim is the author of Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism (2012). Her current book project, Oceanic Lifespans, examines how…
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Chineke! Europe’s first professional orchestra of black and minority ethnic musicians launches The Independent 2015-09-02 Jessica Duchen Its founder double-bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku talks to Jessica Duchen When the Chineke! Orchestra steps on to the Queen Elizabeth Hall platform on 13 September, the audience should notice something unusual. One of those uncomfortable truths about classical music…