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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Month: August 2009
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“Legacies of Race” offers the first examination of Brazilian public opinion to understand racial identities, attitudes, and politics in this racially ambiguous context.
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Amalgamation is a now largely archaic term for the intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races. In the English-speaking world, the term was in use into the twentieth century. In the United States, it was partly replaced after 1863 by the term miscegenation. While the term amalgamation could refer to the interbreeding of different…
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In social science research, snowball sampling is a technique for developing a research sample where existing study subjects recruit future subjects from among their acquaintances. Thus the sample group appears to grow like a rolling snowball. As the sample builds up, enough data is gathered to be useful for research. This sampling technique is often…
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Mixed Heritage in Young Adult Literature is a critical exploration of how mixed-heritage characters (those of mixed race, ethnicity, religion, and/or adoption) and real-life people have been portrayed in young adult fiction and nonfiction.
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Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans Harvard University Press 2009 400 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 19 halftones in 20 p mock insert Hardcover ISBN: 9780674023512 Shirley Elizabeth Thompson, Associate Professor in American Studies University of Texas, Austin New Orleans has always captured our imagination as an exotic city…
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Does racial hybridity offer a future beyond racial difference? At a time when the idea of a postracial society has entered public discourse, “The Amalgamation Waltz” investigates the practices that conjoined blackness and whiteness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction Oxford University Press October 2009 216 pages Hardback ISBN13: 9780195377361; ISBN10: 0195377362 Caroline Rody, Associate Professor of English University of Virginia In the wake of all that is changing in local and global cultures–in patterns of migration, settlement, labor, and communications–a radical interaction has…
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How the courts dealt with wills bequeathing property or freedom to mixed race children.
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Understanding the Epistemology of Ethnic Identity Development in Multiethnic College Students Journal of College Student Development Volume 49, Number 5, September/October 2008 pages 443-458 E-ISSN: 1543-3382 Print ISSN: 0897-5264 DOI: 10.1353/csd.0.0028 Prema Chaudhari University of Pittsburgh Jane Elizabeth Pizzolato, Assistant Professor Department of Education University of California, Los Angeles We examined the nuances of multiethnic…
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Feeling Ancestral: The Emotions of Mixed Race and Memory in Asian American Cultural Productions positions: east asia cultures critique Volume 16, Number 2, Fall 2008 pages 457-482 Jeffrey Santa Ana, Assistant Professor English Department Stony Brook University The current era of war, militarism, and neocolonialism in the Pacific is a time in which capitalist expansion simultaneously…