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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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
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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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Category: Dissertations
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The Rise and Demise of the Gens De Couleur Libre Artists in Antebellum New Orleans University of Florida 2012 173 pages Karen Burt Coker A THESIS PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS The gens de couleur libres of…
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One Drop of Love: Finding the Love in the One-drop Rule through Documentary Storytelling and Performance California State University, Los Angeles May 2013 84 pages Fanshen DiGiovanni A Project Report Presented to The Faculties of the Departments of Television, Film & Media Studies, and Music, Theatre & Dance In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for…
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Deconstructing the Mixed-Race Experience of Passing California State University, San Marcos May 2006 172 pages Victoria Baldo Segall A Thesis Submitted for Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Literature and Writing Studies In “Beauty and the Beast: On Racial Ambiguity” Carla Bradshaw describes passing as an attempt to…
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Liminality in the works: The novels of Charles Chesnutt University of Massachusetts, Amherst September 1996 154 pages Publication Number: AAT 9709591 ISBN: 9780591169812 Susan Jane Doyle Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Charles Chesnutt is perhaps best…
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“Japanese in the Samba”: Japanese Brazilian Musical Citizenship, Racial Consciousness, and Transnational Migration University of Pittsburgh 2008 213 pages Shanna Lorenz, Assistant Professor of Music Occidental College, Los Angeles, California Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy his doctoral dissertation…
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Cuban Color Classification and Identity Negotiation: Old Terms in a New World University of Pittsburgh 2004 246 pages Shawn Alfonso Wells Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Pittsburgh in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy This thesis analyzes how the Cuban Revolution’s transnational discourse on blackness…
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“Not Tainted by the Past”: Re-Constructions and Negotiations of Coloured Identities Among University Coloured Students in Post- Apartheid South Africa University of Pittsburgh 2013 152 pages Sardana Nikolaeva The South African coloured identity is a profoundly complex construction that, on the one hand, is interpreted as an ambiguous and ‘in-between’ identity and, on the other…
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Schwarzsein, Weißsein, Deutschsein: Racial Narratives and Counter-discourses in German Film After 1950 Duke University 2012 286 pages Michelle René Eley Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Carolina-Duke Program – German Studies in the Graduate School of Duke University This dissertation uses film to explore…
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“A Very Different Looking Class of People”: Racial Passing, Tragedy, and the Mulatto Citizen in American Literature University of Southern Mississippi 2013-02-18 81 pages Stephanie S. Rambo Honors Prospectus Submitted to the Honors College of The University of Southern Mississippi In Fulfillment Bachelors of Arts In the Department of English This project explores the mulatto…
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Understanding Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Cognition among Multiracial Youth: A Mixed Methods Study University of Massachusetts, Boston June 2013 Susan A. Lambe Sarinana According to the 2010 census report, 9 million people (2.9% of the total population in the United States) identified as multiracial. Of the individuals who identified (or whose parents/guardians identified them) as multiracial,…