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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‘Black Atlantic’ Cultural Politics as Reflected in Panamanian Literature University of Tennesee, Knoxville August 2005 256 pages Sonja Stephenson Watson A Dissertation Presented for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree The diaspora experience is characterized by hybridity, diversity and above all, difference. The nature of the diaspora experience therefore precludes an exclusive articulation of identity. Black…
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Herb Jeffries, a.k.a. ‘Bronze Buckaroo’ of Song and Screen, Dies at 100 (or So) The New York Times 2014-05-26 William Yardley Sheelagh McNeill contributed research. Herb Jeffries, who sang with Duke Ellington and starred in early black westerns as a singing cowboy known as “the Bronze Buckaroo” — a nickname that evoked his malleable racial…
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“MUTT” at Impact Theatre—laughs, topic, and a great cast make it worth it Examinier.com 2014-05-12 John A. McMullen II Oakland Theater Examiner Sometimes a mediocre play jumps to life when you assemble an extraordinary cast with a primo director. Christopher Chen’s “MUTT” at Impact Theatre means to be sardonic and poignant. Some of the…
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Geraldo Rivera: On Being Jew-Rican, A Rare Mixed Breed Fox News Latino 2014-05-16 Geraldo Rivero, Senior Correspondent Fox News (From my speech May 14, 2014 at The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Women’s Philanthropy luncheon) I’d like to talk about being Jewish in a Puerto Rican family by telling you the story of my…
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Herb Jeffries, a jazz balladeer whose matinee-idol looks won him fame in the late 1930s as the “Bronze Buckaroo” — the first singing star of all-black cowboy movies for segregated audiences — died May 25 at a hospital in West Hills, Calif. He was widely believed to be 100, but for years he insisted he…
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Mixed Feelings North by Northwestern Northwestern University’s leading independent online publication Evanston, Illinois 2014-05-22 Sarah Turbin, Class 0f 2016 Medill School of Journalism There’s no question quite like it. “What are you?” has trailed behind me my whole life, tapping me on the shoulder with a different lilt to its tone each time: curious, doubtful,…
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Radmilla’s Voice: Music Genre, Blood Quantum, and Belonging on the Navajo Nation Cultural Anthropology Volume 29, Issu3 2 (May 2014) pages 385-410 DOI: 10.14506/ca29.2.11 Kristina Jacobsen-Bia, Assistant Professor of Music University of New Mexico Window Rock, Navajo Nation, Arizona, September 1997. A young woman butchers a sheep as the crowd at the Navajo Nation Fairgrounds…
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Go Stand Upon the Rock CreateSpace 2014-05-20 300 pages 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 1494211564; ISBN-13: 978-1494211561 Samuel Michael Lemon, Program Director Continuing Adult and Professional Studies Neumann University, Aston, Pennsylvania From stories handed down by my grandmother about how our ancestors fought to be free. Go Stand Upon the Rock is…