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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Photographer Interview: Albert Chong Dodge & Burn: diversity in photography history 2011-02-08 Qiana Mestrich, Visual Artist + Writer Dodge & Burn: Where are you from? Albert Chong: I am originally from Kingston, Jamaica by way of Brooklyn, NY, San Diego, CA and presently Boulder, CO. D&B: What kind of photography do you shoot and how…
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Capturing the Spirit World on Film: Albert Chong’s artistic recipe blends Jamaica, Catholicism, Santeria and America in an eclectic artistic stew The Los Angeles Times 1993-10-10 Leah Ollman When photographer and installation artist Albert Chong was about 6 years old, his parents bought a new house in Kingston, Jamaica. Chong’s father invited a Catholic priest…
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The Flesh of Amalgamation: Reconsidering the Position (and the Labors) of Blackness American Quarterly Volume 65, Number 2, June 2013 pages 437-446 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2013.0021 Tryon P. Woods, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Crime & Justice Studies University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance and the Ruses of Memory. By Tavia Nyong’o. Minneapolis:…
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Blackness/Mixedness: Contestations over Crossing Signs Cultural Critique Number 54 (Spring, 2003) pages 178-212 Naomi Pabst, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies Yale University While studies of cultural syncretism, transnationalism, and “hybridity” have lately become all the rage, there is one area in which claims of racially “hybrid” identity are still subtly resisted,…
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Finally, Someone Who “Gets” Me! Multiracial People Value Others’ Accuracy About Their Race Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology Published online: 2013-03-06 DOI: 10.1037/a0032249 Jessica D. Remedios, Assistant Professor of Psychology Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Alison L. Chasteen, Associate Professor University of Toronto Monoracial people typically encounter correct views about their race from others. Multiracial…
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Al Jazeera America signs Soledad O’Brien as special correspondent Al Jazeera America 2013-07-01 Al Jazeera America, the new American news channel that will launch in August, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Emmy Award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien’s production company, Starfish Media Group. O’Brien will contribute short-form segments as Special Correspondent to Al…