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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Second Glances: Two African-American Women Take a Closer Look at their Jewish Identities Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal Volume 13, Number 2 (Autumn 2008) pages 52-63 Amy André Nzinga Koné-Miller This conversation is co-written by two African American women, one who converted to Judaism and one who was born Jewish. They dialogue about the differences…
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From: KNPR in Nevada: A Conversation About Race and Ethnicity in America (2008-08-22) We continue our conversation about race and ethnicity in America when we host a joint broadcast [on 2008-08-22] with KCEP-FM. KCEP’s Patricia Cunningham joins us with UNLV [University of Nevada at Las Vegas] Professor Rainier Spencer and Pastor Robert Fowler of The Victory Missionary Baptist…
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“If, however, one is critical of race, it then becomes apparent that there is an inherent contradiction in the idea of multiraciality; for if race is a myth, then multirace must of necessity be a myth as well. Yet how is one to self-identify, to assert an identity, when the only language seeming available is…
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“Who Am I? Mental Health & Dual Heritage” Conference Report At GMCVO, ST. THOMAS CENTRE Ardwick Green North, Manchester, M12 6FZ This event was held on 2009-06-10, from 08:00Z to 13:00Z Programme: 08:00Z Registration 08:30Z Mixed Heritage Identities; the issues and challenges Bradley Lincoln Multiple Heritage Project Manchester 09:00Z Women; mixed heritage and mental health Lindsey…
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From Wikipedia: The Tragic mulatto is a stereotypical fictional character that appeared in American literature during the 19th and 20th centuries. The “tragic mulatto” is an archetypical mixed race person (a “mulatto”), who is assumed to be sad or even suicidal because he/she fails to completely fit in the “white world” or the “black world”. As…
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Mulatto denotes a person with one white parent and one black parent or a person who has both black ancestry and white ancestry. The term may be perceived as pejorative in some cultures and situations. Its current usage varies greatly. The etymology of the term is uncertain. It may be derived from the Portuguese and…
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Miscegenation (Latin miscere “to mix” + genus “kind”) is the mixing of different racial groups, that is, marrying, cohabiting, having sexual relations and having children with a partner from outside one’s racially or ethnically defined group. The term “miscegenation” has been used since the nineteenth century to refer to interracial marriage and interracial sex, and…
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The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) System is a managed system for persistent identification of content-related entities on digital networks. These entities may be content items (digital files, physical objects, abstract works), or any related entities in a content transaction (e.g. licenses, parties, etc.). “DOI” is sometimes used to mean the identifiers within this system; hence…
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Half-caste is a term used to describe people of mixed race or ethnicity. Caste comes from the Latin castus, meaning pure, and the derivative Portuguese and Spanish casta, meaning race. The term originates from the Indian caste system, where a person of ‘lesser’ or half-caste would be deemed to be of a ‘lower class’. While…