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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Debunking the ‘Half-Breed’ Label Indian Country Today Media Network 2015-07-01 Micah Armstrong Blackfoot Indian of the Siksika Nation Half-breed, mixed-blood, metis… These words are more than familiar to us who are not full-blooded American Indians. And by those who are not full-blooded, I do not speak of those who claim a “great-great-great grandmother who was…
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Beautiful White Girlhood?: Daisy Buchanan in Nella Larsen’s Passing African American Review Volume 47, Number 1, Spring 2014 pages 37-49 Sinéad Moynihan, Lecturer in English University of Exeter This article expands recent scholarship on race in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and intertextuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing by arguing that the latter is a…
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Story Of A Criminal The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, Indiana Sunday, 1894-06-17 page 16, columns 1-2 How Green Goods Men Are Protected by Gotham Police. Tale of Iniquity Unequaled In the Annals of Municipal Corruption—Testimony of George Appo. NEW YORK, June 16. During the past week the Lexow committee opened up an entirely new line of…
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Mixed-Race Politics: Bill de Blasio’s 2013 New York City Mayoral Campaign University of Michigan Haven Hall, Room 4701 505 State Street Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, 2016-03-14, 17:30 CDT (Local Time) Michelle May-Curry American Culture Please join the Black Humanities Collective as we workshop a presentation by Michelle May-Curry, a doctoral student in American Culture. Dinner…
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Should biologists stop grouping us by race? STAT: Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine 2016-02-04 Sharon Begley More than a decade after leading geneticists argued that race is not a true biological category, many studies continue to use it, harming scientific understanding and possibly patients, researchers argued in a provocative essay in Science…
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Before People Called Me A Spic, They Called Me A Nigger Medium 2016-03-11 Pablo Guzmán It was a throwaway line I used. Deliberately. Speaking to mostly Latino and African-American audiences. Back in the day. “Before people called me a spic, they called me a nigger.” And it hit the mark. The hoots, applause, whistles and…