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: September 2009
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‘The Nephew’ and ‘The Front Line’: black and mixed masculinities in Irish Cinema Old Ireland, New Irish: ‘The same people living in the same place’: American Conference for Irish Studies 2009 ‘Into the heartland of the ordinary’: Second Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2009 Hosted by Centre for Irish Studies National University of Ireland, Galway…
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Race, Mixed Race and ‘Race Work’ in Japanese American Beauty Pageants Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Montreal Convention Center Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2006-08-10 Rebecca King-O’Riain, Senior Lecturer Department of Sociology National University of Ireland Long-standing debates within critical race theory about the efficacy of the concept of ‘race’ have…
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The Relationship Between Multiracial Identity Variance, Social Connectedness, Facilitative Support, and Adjustment in Multiracial College Students University of Oregon June 2008 151 pages James Lyda A Dissertation presented to the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services and the Graduate School of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree…
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The Historical Legal Construction of Black Racial Identity of Mixed Black-White Race Individuals: The Role of State Legislatures Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association Manchester Hyatt San Diego, California 2008-03-20 Richard T. Middleton, IV, Associate Professor of Political Science University of Missouri, St. Louis This research paper is an…
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Essentialism and the Perception of Mixed-Race Individuals: Implications for the Sociopolitical Assimilation of Ethnic Minorities Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 2009-07-14 Arnold Ho Harvard University James Sidanius, Professor of Psychology and of African and African American Studies Harvard…
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The Shifting Politics of Multiracialism in the United States Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) 2008 Annual Meeting Hynes Convention Center Boston, Massachusetts 2008-08-28 38 pages Awarded the American Political Science Association Public Policy Section 2008 prize for her paper, co-authored with Vesla Weaver, of the University of…
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Mark One or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America University of Michigan Press 2006 208 pages 6 x 9; 11 Tables & 8 Figures. Paper ISBN: 978-0-472-03280-8 Kim M. Williams, Associate Professor of Political Science; Academic Director of the Center for Women, Politics & Policy at the Hatfield School of Government Portland State University, Portland,…
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Quadroon, octoroon and, more rarely, quintroon were historically racial categories of hypodescent used to describe proportion of African ancestry of mixed-race people in the slave societies of Latin America and parts of the 19th century Southern United States, particularly Louisiana… Octoroon means a person of fourth-generation black ancestry. Genealogically, it means one-eighth black. Typically an…
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Quadroon, octoroon and, more rarely, quintroon were historically racial categories of hypodescent used to describe proportion of African ancestry of mixed-race people in the slave societies of Latin America and parts of the 19th century Southern United States, particularly Louisiana… …Quadroon usually referred to someone of one-quarter black ancestry; that is, with three white grandparents…