Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Negro and mulatto families questionnaire, 1928 W. E. B. Du Bois Papers Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 Special Collections and University Archives W.E.B. Du Bois Library University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2 pages Biographical and demographic data on W. E. B. and his family. For more information, click here.
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Race and ethnicity II: Skin and other intimacies Progress in Human Geography Volume 37, Number 4 (August 2013) pages 578-586 DOI: 10.1177/0309132512465719 Patricia L. Price, Professor of Geography Florida International University The intimate turn in geography has centralized approaches to race and ethnicity which foreground bodily encounters. The quirky spatialities of intimacy, involving not just…
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I Am What I Say I Am Time Magazine 2001-03-18 Lise Funderburg According to Russell (my personal trainer by night, a lawyer by day, and a philosopher by disposition), I have white calves. Not white as in pasty, but as in Caucasian. My calves are–how to put it?–substantial, and their shape not only pegs me…
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Brazilians of African descent demand equality Al Jazeera English 2013-07-02 Rachel Levin “Brazil is one of the most socially unequal countries in the world, we’re selling the image that everything is good and we’ll host the World Cup but it’s a country that denies opportunity to its own people.” —Lais Nascimento, student Eighty percent of…
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Dwayne Johnson – ‘Race Shifter’ In A Post Racial World? Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2013-03-27 Sergio Mims, Staff Writer We all know that there’s been a lot of talk about how we are all now living in a “post-racial” society. Though I think, most of us will respond to that…
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New class: The Multiracial Experience The Portland State Vanguard Portland, Oregon 2013-01-16 Gwen Shaw The eye of the storm. That’s what Black Studies professor Ethan Johnson calls the Northwest, when it comes to multiracialism. “The Northwest has some of the highest rates, within the black community in particular, of marrying outside of their race—in the…