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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Bettez to discuss experiences of mixed race women The Southern Illinoisan 2011-10-28 Christi Mathis, Staff Writer University Communications at SIU Carbondale CARBONDALE – Silvia C. Bettez will present “But Don’t Call Me White: Mixed Race Women Exposing Nuances of Privilege and Oppression Politics” on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. The guest…
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Signifying the tragic mulatto: A semiotic analysis of Alex Haley’s Queen Howard Journal of Communications Volume 7, Issue 2 (1996) pages 113-126 DOI: 10.1080/10646179609361718 Mark P. Orbe Karen E. Strother Employing a semiotic framework, this article explores the signification process of the lead character in Alex Haley’s Queen. This popular miniseries is significant because a…
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Health Disparities in the Context of Mixed Race: Challenging the Ideology of Race Advances in Nursing Science Volume 28 Number 3 (July/September 2005) Pages 203-211 Cathy J. Tashiro, PhD, RN, Associate Professor of Nursing University of Washington, Tacoma Debates are occurring about the relative contribution of genetic versus social factors to racial health disparities. An…
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Dances With Aliens? Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Dr. Dawkins shares her thoughts on multiracialism, media and James Cameron’s blockbuster film “Avatar” at the 2011 American Studies Association Conference.
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Wuthering Heights realises Brontë’s vision with its dark-skinned Heathcliff The Guardian Film Blog 2011-10-21 Tola Onanuga, Freelance Subeditor and Writer At last, Andrea Arnold has bucked the trend of casting white actors in the role of Emily Brontë’s ‘gypsy’ foundling hero Andrea Arnold’s forthcoming adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, will see,…