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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Oscar James Dunn: A Case Study in Race & Politics in Reconstruction Louisiana University of New Orleans December 2011 296 pages Brian Mitchell A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Studies The study of…
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Health in Black and White: Debates on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Brazil University of California, San Diego 2011 320 pages Publication Number: AAT 3458492 ISBN: 9781124703657 Anna Pagano A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology In 2006, the Brazilian Health Council approved a…
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Situating mixed-race households in neighborhood contexts University of Georgia May 2007 Margaret Anne Hudson Census 2000 counted approximately 1.7 million White/Latino mixed-race/multiethnic households in the US. Unfortunately, most research is limited to similar statistical accounting. Very little research moves beyond frequency counts to describe racial and ethnic identities in White/Latino households or the relationships of…
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Trans-American Modernisms: Racial Passing, Travel Writing, and Cultural Fantasies of Latin America University of Southern California August 2009 311 pages Ruth Blandón 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) In my historical examination of the literary…
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The African Presence in Brazil: Slavery, Resistance, Miscegenation and Strategic Popularization of Afro-Brazilian Music Culture Kalamazoo College 2004 69 pages Danielle Dubois Flax This thesis intends to investigate the history of slavery in Brazil, its effects on the demographic, psychological and political reality of Afro-Brazilians, and most essentially: how representations of Afro-Brazilian music and culture…
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Intimacy and Inequality: Manumission and Miscegenation in Nineteenth-Century Bahia (1830-1888) University of Nottingham April 2010 428 pages Jane-Marie Collins Thesis submitted to the University of Nottingham for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Hispanic and Latin American Studies This thesis proposes a new paradigm for understanding the historical roots of the myth of racial democracy…
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Passing, segregation, and assimilation: How Nella Larsen changed the “Passing” novel University of Texas, El Paso December 2010 105 pages Publication Number: AAT 1483825 ISBN: 9781124390468 Vivian Maguire A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at El Paso in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree…
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Not keeping up appearances? Mixed race Asian Americans and the use of racial language University of Utah December 2009 76 pages Paul Charles Humbert-Fisk A thesis submitted to the faculty of The University of Utah in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science There has been a movement to proclaim…
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Chinese Caucasian interracial parenting and ethnic identity University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1988 264 pages Publication Number: AAT 8813254 Jeffrey B. Mar This exploratory study looks at Chinese-Caucasian interracially married parents’ experience of raising their children. The goal is to characterize these parents’ stances toward their children’s ethnic identity. A semi-structured, clinical interview was developed for…