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 Kidnapping of Mollie Digby: Was the Fair-Haired Stranger Actually Mollie? All Things Crime 2015-02-20 Darcia Helle In 1870, New Orleans was a city divided by politics, class, and race. The Civil War had left much of the south reeling, and now the government’s Radical Reconstruction attempted to force change by integrating the black population…
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Metis actress Tantoo Cardinal to receive lifetime achievement award CTV News 2015-02-05 The Canadian Press TORONTO — As Metis actress Tantoo Cardinal prepares to receive a lifetime achievement award, she remembers what originally inspired her to begin acting more than 40 years ago: anger. “It wasn’t about a career at all — it was about…
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The white man who pretended to be black The Telegraph 2015-02-05 Tim Stanley With the release of the movie Selma, a lot of Americans are asking how far race relations have really come in the United States. On the one hand, the movie depicts the success of the Sixties civil rights crusade – its victory…
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In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man.
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Fresh Off the Boat Is Not Science Fiction David Shih 2015-02-10 David Shih, Associate Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire I have always known that moment of disappearance and the even uglier truth is that I have long treasured it. That always honorable-seeming absence. It appears I can go anywhere I wish. Is…
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In 1854, a Cherokee Indian called Yellow Bird (better known as John Rollin Ridge) launched in this book the myth of Joaquín Murieta, based on the California criminal career of a 19th century Mexican bandit. Today this folk hero has been written into state histories, sensationalized in books, poems, and articles throughout America, Spain, France,…
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Is it still Interracial dating when you’re mixed? Fusion 2015-02-19 Simone Jacobson Washington, D.C. No matter where I live or whom I date, I will always be out of context. Here’s how it all began: My mother and my maternal grandparents were born in Burma. My grandpa’s father was Chinese and my grandma’s father was…
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Memories of Metis Women of Saint-Eustache, Manitoba — (1910-1980) Oral History Forum/Forum d’histoire orale Volumes 19-20 (1999-2000) pages 90-111 Nicole St-Onge, Professor of History University of Ottawa Introductory Comments In an article entitled “Hired Men: Ontario Agricultural Wage Labour in Historical Perspective” Joy Parr wrote the following, telling, words: Scholars too have claimed that from the…