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: Communications/Media Studies
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Post Racialism, Romance, and The Real World D.C. FlowTV Volume 11, Issue 13 (2010-05-07) Jon Kraszewski, Assistant Professor of Communication Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersery MTV recently finished airing The Real World, DC, the twenty-third season of this long-running reality series. This past season, Ty, an African American from Baltimore, and Emily, a white…
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Shades Of Grey: Interracial Couples On TV FlowTV Volume 15, Issue 4 (2011-12-05) Erica Chito-Childs, Associate Professor of Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Showing interracial couples on television is not necessarily something new. In 1968, Star Trek aired what is widely regarded as the first black-white interracial kiss on television between William Shatner’s…
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“The Souls of Mixed Folk” examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics. Focusing on black-white mixes, Elam analyzes expressive works—novels, drama, graphic narrative, late-night television, art installations—as artistic rejoinders to the perception that post-Civil Rights politics are bereft and post-Black art is apolitical.
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Representations of multiracial Americans, especially those with one black and one white parent, appear everywhere in contemporary culture, from reality shows to presidential politics. Some depict multiracial individuals as being mired in painful confusion; others equate them with progress, as the embodiment of a postracial utopia. In “Transcending Blackness,” Ralina L. Joseph critiques both depictions…
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The use of popular media in multicultural education: Stressing implications for the Black/non-Black biracial North American student Syracuse University 1999 206 pages Wendy Cecille Thompson Instructor usage of popular media in the classroom has spawned studies on the impact of the visual image on minority populations. These studies range from examining the effects of films…
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The Manifestation of Race in Everyday Communication Interactions in New Zealand Unitec New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand October 2012 281 pages Elizabeth S. Revell A thesis submitted to the Department of Communication Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of International Communication This thesis examines the manifestation of race in everyday…