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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Category: Media Archive
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n this episode Al Letson and guest producer Lu Olkowski visit a tiny town [East Jackson/Waverly] in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio where, for a century, residents have shared the common bond of identifying as African-American despite the fact that they look white. Racial lines have been blurred to invisibility, and people inside the same…
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Josephine Baker: A Chanteuse and a Fighter The Journal of Transnational American Studies Volume 2, Number 1 (2010) 18 pages Konomi Ara Tokyo University of Foreign Studies This excerpt is from her newly-published biography of Josephine Baker, “A Fighting Diva.” It tells the intriguing story of Baker’s travels to Japan, her close friendship with the Japanese…
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Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States Duke University Press 2009 408 pages 19 photographs Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4440-7 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4426-1 Micol Seigel, Associate Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies Indiana University In Uneven Encounters, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States…
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American Voters Are Getting All Mixed Up Dog Park: Media Unleased 2012-11-20 Leighton Woodhouse, Founding Partner As anybody with a TV, radio or newspaper subscription can affirm, the big story coming out of the 2012 election is the long feared/eagerly awaited arrival of the Latino Vote as a national political force capable of deciding a…
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Nation Drag: Uses of the Exotic The Journal of Transnational American Studies ISSN 1940-0764 Volume 1, Issue 1 (2009) Micol Seigel, Associate Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies Indiana University In Uneven Encounters, the forthcoming book from which this article is excerpted, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the…
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Boundaries, Subjectivity, and Knowledge Production in Colonial Río de la Plata 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 Conference on Latin American History 65 Saturday, 2013-01-05: 14:30-16:30 CST (Local Time) Ursuline Salon (Hotel Monteleone) Chair: Shawn Michael Austin, University of New Mexico Papers: “The Emergence of Guaraní-Christian Subject…
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Reviving Native Culture and Tradition with the Help of Elders – A Study of Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed The Criterion: An International Journal in English Volume III, Issue III (September 2012) 8 pages ISSN 0976-8165 A. Kamaleswari, Assistant Professor of English Saiva Bhanu Kshatriya (S. B. K.) College, Aruppukottai, India Elders should be role models for…
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Deconstructing Race: Gobinism and Miscegenation in Pearl S. Buck The Criterion: An International Journal in English Volume III, Issue II (June 2012) 8 pages ISSN 0976-8165 Aysha Munira The 17th and 18th centuries saw the emergence of the idea of race, along with the rise of colonialism and transatlantic slave trade. By the end of…
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Coloured Members of the Bahamian House of Assembly in the Nineteenth Century College of the Bahamas Research Journal Volume 10 (2001) Rosalyn Themistocleous This article focuses on some little known ‘coloured’ members of the House of Assembly of the nineteenth century. The position of the Bahamians of mixed race is discussed, particularly vis-à-vis the white…
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Negotiating Racial and Ethnic Lines in the Borderlands: Mixed Peoples in Transitional North America 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 108 Friday, 2013-01-04, 10:30-12:00 CST (Local Time) Cornet Room (Sheraton New Orleans) Chair: Stephen Aron, University of California, Los Angeles Papers: “‘I Do Not Know…