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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Mixed Signals: Examining Ethnic Affirmation as a Factor in the Discrimination-Depression Relationship with Multiracial and Monoracial Minority Adolescent Girls University of Connecticut 2017-02-15 62 pages Linda A. Oshin A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science Multiracial adolescents are a growing segment of our population, but not…
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The Discourse of Konketsuji: Racialized Representations of Biracial Japanese Children in the 1950s University of Toronto March 2017 79 pages Zachery Anthony Nelson A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Department of East Asian Studies University of Toronto This study examines textual representations of biracial Japanese children…
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Japan’s presses marked the occasion by declaring a state of crisis: the “konketsuji [mixed-blood children] crisis.” By all accounts, Allied soldiers had sired and abandoned two hundred thousand “mixed-blood” orphans in Japan.
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As the number of mixed race people grows in Japan, anxieties about miscegenation in today’s context of intensified globalization continue to increase. Indeed, the multiracial reality has recently gotten attention and led to heightened discussions surrounding it in Japanese society, specifically, in the media.
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This thesis examines how non-white, mixed race women with Asian heritage understand, participate in, and resist colonialism, anti-blackness and anti-Indigeneity. The study finds that mixed race identification is contextual and shifts according to the racial make-up of spaces. Participants performed their identities in white spaces differently than in communities of colour. Although all participants could…
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In Plain Sight: Changing Representations of “Biracial” People in Film 1903-2015 Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin December 2016 247 pages Charles Lawrence Gray A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University, In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Educational Policy and Leadership) Rooted in slavery, the…
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Exploring Classification of Black-White Biracial Students in Oregon Schools University of Oregon December 2012 145 pages Deana M. James Presented to the Department of Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership and the Graduate School of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Multiracial children constitute one…
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This research explores how White women perceive their roles as parents to “mixed” race or biracial Black children. This qualitative project analyzes data from in person interviews, photographs and comments posted on Internet blogs, Facebook fan pages of mixed race children. Core elements of grounded theory are used as methodology to explore how White women…
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Not under my roof: Interracial relationships and black image in post-World War II film Northern Illinois University 2015 56 pages Publication Number: 10008811 ProQuest document ID: 1765648575 ISBN: 9781339455150 Andre Berchiolly This thesis examines the historical implications of miscegenation and interracial interactions between minority males and white females in Post-World War II independent cinema. Elia…