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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Rewriting the Passing Novel: Danzy Senna’s Caucasia The Griot Volume 26, Issue 2, Fall (October 2007) 14 pages Kathryn Rummell, Professor of English California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Passing (here, signifying African Americans passing for whites) has long been a fixture of the American social landscape. Passers have masqueraded for a variety of…
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While the name Archibald Motley brings instant recognition only to specialized scholars, two of Motley’s paintings are so well known that they have become, for many, visual embodiments of the Harlem Renaissance. Motley’s “The Octoroon Girl” (1925) and “Blues” (1929) have served as cover art for several editions of Harlem Renaissance literature, anthologies, and literary…
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My Biracial Life: A Memoir Philadelphia [Magazine] 2015-02-08 Originally published as “My Wild, Chaotic, Complex, Crazy, Ambiguous (Biracial) Hair” in the February 2015 issue of Philadelphia magazine. Malcolm Burnley What 25 years with wild, chaotic, complex, crazy, ambiguous hair has taught me. It’s 1:30 a.m. on a Saturday night at the barren 24-hour Melrose Diner…
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Arturo O’Farrill: Afro-Latino Heritage Is ‘One Big Culture That We All Share’ The Huffington Post Latino Voices 2015-02-06 Roque Planas, Editor Arturo O’Farrill wants Africa to get the credit it deserves. The New York-based pianist, composer and educator traveled Friday to Los Angeles to attend the Grammys, where his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra’s “The Offense…
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Sweetness The New Yorker 2015-02-09 Issue Toni Morrison It’s not my fault. So you can’t blame me. I didn’t do it and have no idea how it happened. It didn’t take more than an hour after they pulled her out from between my legs for me to realize something was wrong. Really wrong. She was…
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Racial Passing in the U.S. and Mexico in the Early Twentieth Century RSF Review: Research from the Russell Sage Foundation Russell Sage Foundation New York, New York 2015-01-22 This feature is part of an ongoing RSF blog series, Work in Progress, which highlights some of the ongoing research of our current class of Visiting Scholars.…
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Passing the Line Karl Jacoby 2012-12-20 Karl Jacoby, Professor of History Columbia University, New York, New York Who was Guillermo Eliseo? Such was the question that any number of people asked themselves during the Gilded Age as this enigmatic figure flitted in and out of an astonishing array of the era’s most noteworthy events—scandalous trials,…
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Not Excluded From Analyses: Ethnic and Racial Meanings and Identification Among Multiethnic/Racial Early Adolescents Journal of Adolescent Research Volume 30, Number 2 (March 2015) pages 143-179 DOI: 10.1177/0743558414560626 Cari Gillen-O’Neel, Assistant Professor of Psychology Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota Rashmita S. Mistry, Associate Professor of Education University of California, Los Angeles Christia Spears Brown, Assistant…