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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Assimilation in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Works University of New Orleans 2013-05-17 41 pages Mary C. Harris A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Master of Arts In English Charles W. Chesnutt captures the essence of the Post Civil War…
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I Call Myself What I like: Mixed Race Identity & Social Media University of Leicester October 2013 68 pages Nadia Riepenhausen Submitted for the degree of MA in Mass Communications, Media & Public Relations This research study asserts that mixed race people are hyper-visible in terms of their images in media and popular culture, yet…
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Infant Perceptions of Mixed-Race Faces: An Exploration of the Hypodescent Rule in 8.5 Month-Old Infants Pitzer College, Claremont, California Senior Theses Spring 2013 42 pages Sophie Beiers Studies have shown that adults often categorize mixed-race individuals of White and non-White descent as members of the non-White racial group, an effect said to be reminiscent of…
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In November 2009, popular fashion magazine Allure revealed the “Face of the Future”. Between pages of glistening models with features ranging from freckled faces with full lips to loosely curled afros and almond-shaped eyes, photographer Marilyn Minter gave us not only the changing face of America, but the changing face of American beauty.
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Living in Ambiguity: The Mixed Race Experience at Colorado State University Colorado State University Fall 2012 77 pages Carl Izumi Olsen In partial fulfillment of the requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts Colorado State University, Fort Collins This study analyzes the experiences of mixed race students at Colorado State University by using semi-structured…
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In ‘The duty to miscegenate’, I harness John Stuart Mill’s 19th century theory of social freedom to explain and to dismantle contemporary racialised and gendered injustice. In the first chapter—Social stigmatisation: ‘a social tyranny’—I argue that persons racialised-and-gendered-as-black-women were, in the past, unjustly stigmatised by legal penalties against ‘miscegenation’ and are still, today, unjustly stigmatised…
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Indiana’s Miscegenation Laws: An Ineffective Racist Agenda Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana May 2013 57 pages Megan M. Harris An Undergraduate Honors Thesis (HONRS 499) Miscegenation laws have played an influential and explanatory role in Indiana’s perception and attitudes about interracial relationships. Indiana had stringent regulations against such unions, which existed for a large portion…
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Visualizing Race: Neoliberal Multiculturalism and the Struggle for Koreanness in Contemporary South Korean Television University of Texas at Austin August 2013 240 pages Ji-Hyun Ahn Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy “Visualizing…
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The Influence of Spirituality on the Implicit Identity of Racial African American Women of Ethnically Cherokee Ancestry Argosy University, Washington, D.C. December 2009 141 pages Daryl Harris Thorne Submitted to the Faculty of Argosy University – Washington, DC Campus College of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences In partial fulfillment of The requirements for the Degree of…