Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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I once asked my dad, out of curiosity, whether he put Caucasian, Asian or both on surveys that ask about his race. He paused for a bit and said he didn’t know. I asked if he identified with one more than the other, and he was unsure of that as well.
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One in Twelve Mary Frances Berry 2014-12-25 Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History University of Pennsylvania When I read in the New Orleans Times Picayune that about 12 percent of Louisiana residents who identify themselves as white have at least 1 percent African ancestry, or one…
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Review: Identity in Passing: RACE-ING and E-RACE-ING in American and African American History The Journal of African American History Volume 101, No. 3, Summer 2016 pages 344-355 DOI: 10.5323/jafriamerhist.101.3.0344 Thomas J. Davis, Professor of History Arizona State University, Tempe Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity. Waco, TX: Baylor…
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“We Are Who We Say We Are” provides a detailed, nuanced account of shifting forms of racial identification within an extended familial network and constrained by law and social reality.
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For most of our history, the U.S. government treated biracial Americans as if we didn’t even exist, but my family has stories to tell.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams, fellow at the American Academy Berlin, read from his thought-provoking essay “Black and Blue and Blond” published in the Virginia Quarterly Review and anthologized in The Best American Essays 2016 which is now the basis of a book project.
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Dr. Patton to speak in Germany Branding Iron: The UW Student Newspaper Online 2017-11-15 Courtney Kudera (Photo courtesy of Dr. Tracey Patton) A picture of Dr. Tracey Patton standing on the UW campus. Designing Modern Families: International Perspectives of Intercountry and Transracial Adoptions; this is the conference UW professor, Dr. Tracey Patton, has been asked…
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Zendaya has booked what Deadline calls a hot pitch package on the street right now. The film is called ‘A White Lie’ and it is a film adaptation of the Karin Tanabe novel, “The Gilded Years.”