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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Caribbean Fashion Week: Remodeling Beauty in “Out of Many One” Jamaica Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture Volume 14, Number 3, September 2010 pages 387-404 DOI: 10.2752/175174110X12712411520377 Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica The elitist Jamaican motto, “Out of Many, One People,“ privileges…
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Afua Hirsch: Our parents left Africa – now we are coming home The Guardian 2012-08-25 Afua Hirsch, West Africa Correspondent As a child in London, Afua Hirsch was embarrassed by her African roots. Then, in February, she became a ‘returnee’, choosing to live in her parents’ birthplace, Ghana. Her story is echoed across the continent:…
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AALR Mixed Race Initiative The Asian American Literary Review 2012-08-26 Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, co-Editor-in-Chief Thanks to political organizing, scholarship, and the arts, not to mention media coverage, mixed race has become hyper-visible. So what’s next? The Asian American Literary Review (AALR) Mixed Race Initiative, launching this Fall 2012 and running until Spring 2014, won’t simply…
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Reconstructing Race The Western Historical Quarterly Volume 34, Number 1 (Spring, 2003) pages 6-26 Elliott West, Distinguished Professor of History University of Arkansas, Fayetteville During what might be called the Greater Reconstruction, 1846–1877, territorial acquisitions as well as southern slavery forced a new racial dialogue between West and South, unsettled racial relations and presumptions, and…
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“Our America” That is Not One: Transnational Black Atlantic Disclosures in Nicolás Guillén and Langston Hughes Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture Volume 22, Number 3 (Fall 2000) pages 87-113 DOI: 10.1353/dis.2000.0007 Monika Kaup, Associate Professor of English University of Washington In the past two decades, discontent with the exclusions operative in…
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The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice SUNY Press October 2008 200 pages Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-7585-0 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-7586-7 Ronald R. Sundstrom,Professor of Philosophy University of San Francisco Considers the effects of the browning of America on philosophical debates over race, racism, and social justice. This book considers the challenge that the…
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Biological Distance and the African American Dentition Ohio State University 2002 229 pages Heather Joy Hecht Edgar A DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University Gene flow occurs whenever two human populations come in contact. African Americans are the…
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In response to perceived invisibility within a black/white racial paradigm governed by hypodescent, various multiracial people have begun to speak out against a lack of recognition of their multiplicitous identities. Along with state recognition (i.e., the 2000 census), many of these multiracial identity activists desire a sense of community built around racial multiplicity.