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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Reading Race in Nella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case African American Review Voluume 46, Numbers 2-3, Summer/Fall 2013 pages 345-361 DOI: 10.1353/afa.2013.0076 Rebecca Nisetich, Assistant Director, Honors Program University of Southern Maine Toward the end of Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929), the protagonist Irene Redfield imagines how her friend Clare Kendry’s racist husband might react…
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Mixed race kids a new phenomenon in the Netherlands? We think not. Africa Is a Country 2014-06-11 Chandra Frank Mieke Weisemann This week cultural centre de Balie in Amsterdam will be hosting an event titled ‘LovingDay.nl: (In)visibly Mixed’ on “mixed race” families and relationships (BTW, the Netherlands uncritically accepts this terminology, along with the assumption…
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The problem with sub-Saharan Africa and DNA analysis tools Genealogy Adventures 2014-07-08 Brian Sheffey This is the first post in a series that covers issues I’ve experienced with reporting of sub-Saharan African results in DNA analysis. This series of posts will have a particular emphasis on DNA testing for African Americans. Over the next series…
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A surprising number of people change their race and ethnicity from one Census to the next The Washington Post 2014-08-06 Emily Badger, Reporter On Census forms, the option to check a box for racial or ethnic identity presupposes that there’s an unambiguous answer: white, black, American Indian, Hispanic, etc. But identity is a fluid thing.…
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America’s Churning Races: Race and Ethnic Response Changes between Census 2000 and the 2010 Census CARRA Working Paper Series Working Paper #2014-09 Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications United States Census Bureau Washington, D.C. 2014-08-04 56 pages Carolyn A. Liebler University of Minnesota Sonya Rastogi U. S. Census Bureau Leticia E. Fernandez U. S.…
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“Where a Man is a Man”?: Ancestral Possibilities in Charles Chesnutt’s Paul Marchand, F.M.C. African American Review Volume 46, Numbers 2-3, Summer/Fall 2013 pages 397-411 DOI: 10.1353/afa.2013.0048 Susan M. Marren, Associate Professor University of Arkansas This essay reads Charles Chesnutt’s Paul Marchand, F.M.C. not as a historical romance (as Chesnutt’s contemporaneous publishers deemed it) but…
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In “The Octoroon”—the most controversial play of his career—Boucicault addresses the sensitive topic of race and slavery. George Peyton inherits a plantation, and falls in love with an octoroon—a person one-eighth African American, and thus, in 1859 Louisiana, legally a slave.
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First Métis Families of Quebec, 1622-1748. Volume 1: Fifty-Six Families Genealogical Publishing Company 2012 226 pages 8½” x 11” Paperback ISBN: 9780806355610 Gail Morin The term Métis originally referred to the offspring produced from the intermarriage of early French fur traders with Canadian Native Americans. Later, there were also Anglo Métis (known as “Countryborn”)–children of…