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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The Political Ontology of Race Polity 2011-10-17 DOI: 10.1057/pol.2011.15 Michael Rabinder James, Associate Professor of Political Science Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Race theory is dominated by two camps. Eliminativists rely on a biological ontology, which contends that the concept of race must be biologically grounded, in order to repudiate the very term, on grounds…
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Daniel Sharfstein, “The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White” Penguin, 2011 New Books in African American Studies Discussions with Scholars of African Americans about their New Books 2011-11-01 Vershawn Young, Associate Professor of English University of Kentucky Daniel Sharfstein’s The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret…
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Escape into Whiteness The New York Review of Books 2011-11-24 Brent Staples Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781594202827. Tickets to the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial were a hot item in the spring of…
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Playing in the dark/ playing in the light: Coloured identity in the novels of Zoë Wicomb Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa Volume 20, Issue 1, 2008 pages 1-15 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2008.9678286 J. U. Jacobs, Senior Professor of English and Fellow University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Zoë Wicomb’s three fictional works—You Can’t Get Lost…
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The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal Duke University Press November 2011 160 pages 20 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5210-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5199-3 Orin Starn, Professor of Cultural Anthropology Duke University Perhaps the best golfer ever, Tiger Woods rocketed to the top of a once whites-only sport. Endorsements made…
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Stuck at the border of the reserve: Self-identity and authentic identity amongst mixed race First Nations women University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada January 2010 330 pages Publication Number: AAT NR64501 ISBN: 9780494645017 Jaime Mishibinijima Miller A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of Graduate Studies of The University of Guelph by for the degree of…
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Racial, Religious, and Civic Creole Identity in Colonial Spanish America The Journal of American History Volume 17, Issue 3 (Fall 2005) pages 420-437 DOI: 10.1093/alh/aji024 Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History University of Texas, Austin Patrocinio de la Virgen de Guadalupe sobre el Reino de Nueva España (“Auspices of Our Lady of Guadalupe…
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Cultural identities of people of “mixed” backgrounds: racial, ethnic and national meanings in negotiation McGill University, Montreal 2005 Sahira Iqbal A thesis submitted to McGill University in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree ofMasters of Arts in Culture and Values in Education. This qualitative study aims to describe and understand the cultural identities…
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Le métissage dans l’œuvre indochinoise de Marguerite Duras McGill University, Montreal 2006 106 pages Elisabeth Desaulniers Mémoire soumis à l’Université McGill en vue de l’obtention du grade de Maître ès arts (MA) en langue et littérature françaises This dissertation focuses on the issue of hybridity in Marguerite Duras’ corpus of Indochinese texts, as well as…