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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“And None for Clare Kendry”: The Mulatta Clique and Female Jealousy in Nella Larsen’s Passing AsianShakespearean ~ Poetic Justifications, Artistic Testimonies… 2012-04-25 Rebecca Hu Scholarship on Nella Larsen’s Passing has frequently been approached from the angles of race and queer theories. H. J. Landry and soon after, Brian Carr, have recently broken ground in their…
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Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond HarperCollins 2005 240 pages Trimsize: 6 x 9 Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780060761424; ISBN10: 0060761423 Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem Breaking nearly eight decades of silence, Essie Mae Washington-Williams comes forward with a story of unique historical magnitude and incredible human drama. Her father, the…
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Essie Mae Washington-Williams dies at 87; black daughter of segregationist Strom Thurmond The Los Angeles Times 2013-02-04 Elaine Woo In 2003 the retired L.A. schoolteacher unburdened herself of a secret: Her father was Sen. Strom Thurmond, the legendary South Carolina politician who had built a career as a champion of segregation. A week before Christmas…
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Paranoid Interpretation, Desire’s Nonobject, and Nella Larsen’s “Passing” PMLA (Publication of the Modern Language Association) Volume 119, Number 2 (March, 2004) pages 282-295 Brian Carr Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) has occasioned a great deal of paranoid interpretation, in large part because the novel is about nothing. I use nothing in the sense of no thing or a non-object,…
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Racial Medicine: Not So Fast The Daily Beast 2008-08-19 Sharon Begley, Senior Health and Science Correspondent Reuters Next time you want to start a bar fight, proclaim to everyone within earshot that “race is not real; it is just a social and cultural construct and has no biological validity.” Then duck before you get punched…
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Three Is Not Enough The Daily Beast Newsweek Magazine 1995-02-12 Sharon Begley, Senior Health and Science Correspondent Reuters In 1990, Americans claimed membership in nearly 300 races or ethnic groups and 600 American Indian tribes. Hispanics had 70 categories of their own. To most Americans race is as plain as the color of the nose…
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The Biracial and Multiracial Student Experience: A Journey to Racial Literacy SAGE Publications 2009-06-30 168 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781412975063 Hardcover ISBN: 9781412975056 Bonnie M. Davis What does it mean to be “in between”? As more biracial and multiracial students enter the classroom, educators have begun to critically examine the concept of race. Through compelling student…
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Faces In Between: Art About Mixed-Race Identity CBC Here and Now Toronto 2013-02-01 Throughout history, artists have drawn upon their own experience to fuel their work. Tonight, a new exhibit explores mixed race identity from the point of view of three young women. Rema Tavares is one of the artists. She spoke about “Faces In…
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The Negro: A Menace to American Civilization The Gorham Press 1907 281 pages Library of Congress: E185.61 .S38 R. W. Shufeldt, M.D. (1850-1934) Contents I. Man’s Place in Nature from a Biological Standpoint. II. The Ethnological Status of the Negro. III. The Introduction of the Negro into the United States.—The African Slave Trade. IV. Biological…