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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Before Green and Bouchet, another African American Yale College grad. Maybe. Yale Alumni Magazine 2014-03-07 Mark Alden Branch ’86 Just last Friday, we told you that the first African American to graduate from Yale College was not Edward Bouchet in 1874, but Richard Henry Green in 1857. Since then, though, we’ve been reminded of two…
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Yale College’s first black grad: it’s not who you think Yale Alumni Magazine 2014-02-28 Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL Mark Alden Branch ’86 In 1874, Edward Bouchet became the first African American to graduate from Yale College. Or so the university’s histories tell us—and we’ve reported it ourselves more than once. Yet that very year, a…
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Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the Making of the African Diaspora in Europe by Tina M. Campt (review) Callaloo Volume 37, Number 1, Winter 2014 pages 169-171 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2014.0006 Nicosia Shakes Brown University Campt, Tina M., Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012) In Image Matters, Tina…
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Toni Morrison and the Burden of the Passing Narrative African American Review Volume 35, Number 2 (Summer, 2001) pages 205-217 Juda Bennett, Associate Professor of English The College of New Jersey Passing for white, a phenomenon that once captivated writers as diverse as Charles Chesnutt, Sinclair Lewis, Nella Larsen, and Mark Twain, no longer seems…
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U.S. Census looking at big changes in how it asks about race and ethnicity Pew Research Center 2014-03-14 Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer/Editor at the Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer at the Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project The Census Bureau has embarked on a years-long research project intended…
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Being “Nesian”: Pacific Islander Identity in Australia The Contemporary Pacific Volume 26, Number 1, 2014 pages 126-154 DOI: 10.1353/cp.2014.0013 Kirsten McGavin, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology University of Queensland, Australia Pacific Islanders in Australia use the terms “Islander” and “Pacific Islander” in many ways and in different circumstances to define themselves and others. Through invoking…
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New Contenders Emerge in Quest to Identify Yale’s First African-American Graduate The New York Times 2014-03-16 Ariel Kaminer For Richard Henry Green, recently declared to have been Yale College’s first known African-American graduate, fame, or at least the certainty of his claim on history, was fleeting. Just last month, an Americana specialist at the Swann…