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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More Hispanics Declaring Themselves White The New York Times 2014-05-21 Nate Cohn Hispanics are often described as driving up the nonwhite share of the population. But a new study of census forms finds that more Hispanics are identifying as white. An estimated net 1.2 million Americans of the 35 million Americans identified in 2000 as…
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“Hafu” an AMAZING Start But We Need to Go Deeper Multiracial Asian Families 2014-05-20 Sharon Chang About a week ago I had the chance to do something I’ve been wanting to do (and bugging the filmmakers about for a long time)—finally go to a local screening of the documentary Hafu, meaning “half,” which represents 5…
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Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia by Eva Sheppard Wolf (review) [Padraig Riley] Civil War History Volume 60, Number 2, June 2014 pages 199-201 DOI: 10.1353/cwh.2014.0041 Padraig Riley, Assistant Professor of History Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Wolf, Eva Sheppard, Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in…
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Things to Know When Talking About Race and Genetics Psychology Today 2014-05-13 Agustín Fuentes, Professor of Anthropology University of Notre Dame On May 5th, 2014, I shared the platform in a webinar debate with Nicholas Wade (former NYTimes Science Writer) about his new book “A Troublesome Inheritance – A discussion on genes, race and…
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Culture File – Race and the Irish Screen RTÉ Lyric FM 2014-05-15 Fin Keegan, Host Zélie Asava, Lecturer and Programme Director of Video and Film Dundalk Institute of Technology, Louth, Ireland What can the Irish horror movie tell us about attitudes to race? And can a mixed race guard [police] in an Irish crime series,…
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Can ‘Belle’ End Hollywood’s Obsession with the White Savior? The Daily Beast 2014-05-04 Keli Goff The black characters in films like ‘The Help’ and ’12 Years A Slave’ always seem to need a white knight. But the black protagonist in ‘Belle,’ a new film about racism and slavery in England, takes matters into her own…
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Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia University of Georgia Press June 2012 192 pages 6 b&w photos, 1 map Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-3229-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3230-7 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-4364-8 Eva Sheppard Wolf, Associate Professor of History San Francisco State University In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf…
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Exploring the Political Exploitation of Blood Quantum in the U.S. Indian Country Today Media Network 2013-05-17 Vincent Schilling, Executive Vice President Schilling Media, Inc. Arica L. Coleman is an assistant professor of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware. She is African American and Native American (Rappahannock), which may help explain why she has…