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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Category: Dissertations
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Constructing Dialogue, Constructing Identites: Mixed Heritage Identity Construction in “Half and Half” Georgetown University 2009-04-16 55 pages Anissa Jane Sorokin 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 Language and Communication This…
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The arresting eye: Race and the detection of deception University of Southern California December 2005 282 pages Publication Number: AAT 3220115 ISBN: 9780542713217 Jinny Huh A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) With increasing rates…
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Crimes of passing: The criminalization of blackness and miscegenation in United States passing narratives University of California, Los Angeles 2005 158 pages Publication Number: AAT 3175169 ISBN: 9780542133046 Susan Elaine Bausch A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature Between approximately 1880 and 1925, large…
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God’s governor: George Grey and racial amalgamation in New Zealand 1845-1853 University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand August 2005 346 pages Susannah Grant A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand The legend of Governor Grey is a major feature of nineteenth century New Zealand…
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Mining the garrison of racial prejudice: The fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt and turn-of-the-century White racial discourse University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1995 Robert Carl Nowatzki This dissertation analyzes the fiction of Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932), the first black fiction writer published by a major American firm and widely reviewed and read by white critics and…
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Branding Blasians: Mixed Race Black/Asian Americans in the Celebrity Industrial Complex University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign May 2012 235 pages Myra Washington, Assistant Professor of Communication & Journalism University of New Mexico Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communications in the Graduate College of the University…
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Parading Respectability: An Ethnography of the Christmas Bands movement in the Western Cape, South Africa University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign May 2012 238 pages Sylvia R. Bruinders The Christmas Bands march through Adderley Street late at night during the “festive season” in Cape Town, 2001. Picture by Henry Trotter. The author releases it to the public…
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In Praise of Michelle Cliff’s Creolite North Carolina State University 2002-11-13 62 pages Quincey Michelle Hyatt A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of North Carolina State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts—English Focusing on feminism, language, and history, this thesis explores the ways in which the…
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Re-searching Metis Identity: My Metis Family Story University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon April 2010 200 pages Tara Turner A Thesis Submitted to the College of Graduate Studies and Research in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Psychology This research explores Metis identity through the use of…
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Understanding the Racial Identity Development of Multiracial Young Adults through their Family, Social and Environmental Experiences Catholic University of America 2012 184 pages Lisa Sechrest-Ehrhardt A DISSERTATION Submitted to the faculty of the National Catholic School of Social Service of The Catholic University of America In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree Doctor…