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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Category: Dissertations
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A British Ireland, or the limits of race and hybridity in Maria Edgeworth’s novels Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2009-09-21 73 pages Kimberly Philomen Clarke A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in…
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Biological Distance and the African American Dentition Ohio State University 2002 229 pages Heather Joy Hecht Edgar A DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University Gene flow occurs whenever two human populations come in contact. African Americans are the…
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Ambivalent examples: The multiple Creole subjects of Spanish American nineteenth-century narrative University of Pennsylvania 2006 371 pages Publication Number: AAT 3225427 ISBN: 9780542797194 Elisabeth L. Austin This dissertation proposes a paradigm for 19th-century Spanish American Creole subjectivity that considers it to be a multiple, unstable construct rather than a coherent or constant entity. From this…
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An Exploration of Healthy Adjustment in Biracial Young Adults Univesity of California, Davis 2008 175 pages Tamu Corrine Nolfo A DISSERTATION Submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Human Development Given the historically negative views of interracial marriages and mixed race children proliferating the popular American social…
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Growing Up Biracial in a Southern Elementary School Georgia Southern University May 2009 139 pages Julie Kight A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION This dissertation explored the relationship between racial identity of biracial children (defined as fifty percent…
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Uncertainty and evolution: Contributions to identity development for female college students who identify as multiracial/biracial-bisexual/pansexual Iowa State University 2008 322 pages Publication Number: AAT 3310805 ISBN: 9780549596066 Alissa Renee King A dissertation submitted to the graduate faculty partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In this study, I explored how female…
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In Search of Something Akin to Freedom: Black Women, Slavery, and Power Florida State University 2007 78 pages Katrina Songanett Smith A Thesis submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts This thesis examines both historical and fictional representations of interracial relationships in…
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afro look: Die Geschichte einer Zeitschrift von schwarzen Deutschen University of Massachusetts, Amherst May 2000 245 pages Publication Number: AAT 9978512 ISBN: 9780599844605 Francine Jobatey Submitted to the Graduate School of the University Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures This…
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Irrevocable Ties and Forgotten Ancestry: The Legacy of Colonial Intermarriage for Descendents of Mixed Ancestry University of British Columbia, Vancouver April 2008 56 pages Kim S. Dertien A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Anthropology) The identities of mixed Aboriginal…