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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Miscegenetic Melville: Race and Reconstruction in Clarel Zach Hutchins, Assistant Professor of English Colorado State University ELH Volume 80, Number 4, Winter 2013 pages 1173-1203 DOI: 10.1353/elh.2013.0039 This essay investigates Herman Melville’s views on Reconstruction and racism in Clarel, the national epic published in the centennial year of 1876. In Clarel, Melville points toward miscegenation…
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From Aesthetics to Allegory: Raphaël Confiant, the Creole Novel, and Interdisciplinary Translation Small Axe Volume 17, Number 3, November 2013 (No. 42) pages 89-99 Justin Izzo, Assistant Professor of French Studies Brown University This essay examines the roles played by ethnographic writing and translation in Raphaël Confiant’s 1994 L’allée des soupirs. This novel fictionalizes the…
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Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age by Jonathan Kahn (review) Bulletin of the History of Medicine Volume 87, Number 4, Winter 2013 pages 708-709 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2013.0067 Anne Pollock, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Jonatha Kahn, Race in a…
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Is Race a Fiction? Ideas with Paul Kennedy CBC Radio-Canada 2013-12-04 Paul Kennedy, Host Blood ties you to family, country and race. Should it? Watch a live panel discussion with Lawrence Hill, Priscila Uppal, Hayden King and Karina Vernon moderated by Ideas host Paul Kennedy. What happens to personal identity when race is removed as…
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Imagining Ourselves: What Does it Mean to be Part of the African Diaspora? Think Africa Press 2013-11-21 Jean-Philippe Dedieu, Research Fellow IRIS of the École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Tina Campt talks to Think Africa Press about black European subjectivities, the US’ dominance in diaspora studies, and how photographs tell us more…
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Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family Beacon Press 2013-10-22 264 pages 5.5″ X 8.5″ inches Cloth ISBN: 978-080701319-9 Susan Katz Miller A book on the growing number of interfaith families raising children in two religions Susan Katz Miller grew up with a Jewish father and Christian mother, and was raised Jewish. Now…
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Roots Entwined by Audrey Dewjee Tangled Roots: Literature and events to celebrate mixed-race people in Yorkshire 2013 Audrey Dewjee Yorkshire-born Audrey Dewjee has been married for over 40 years to a Zanzibari of Indian ancestry. She has been researching British Black and Asian History since the mid-1970s, and is currently a member of Leeds Diasporian…
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Scotching Three Myths About Mary Seacole British Journal of Healthcare Assistants Volume 7, Issue 10, (October 2013) pages 508-511 Elizabeth Anionwu, Emeritus Professor of Nursing University of West London Mary Seacole has received unprecedented media coverage due to the phenomenal success of the Operation Black Vote petition to keep her included in the national curriculum.…