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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Mixed Race Organisations in the UK: Joint Statement 2009-09-13 People in Harmony in consultation with: Multiple Heritage Project MixTogether Sputnik Inheritance Project Planet Rainbow Project MOSAIC Black and Mixed Parentage Family Group Intermix Starlight Black Child Mixed Heritage Group As a coalition of mixed race organisations we seek to advance the social well being of…
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Mixed Race in Britain: A Survey of the Preferences of Mixed Race People for Terminology and Classifications (Interim Report) Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent at Canterbury July 2006 Peter Aspinall, Senior Research Fellow Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent Ferhana…
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The United Colors of Family (Interview with Charmaine Wijeyesinghe) UMass Amherst, The Magazine for Alumni and Friends University of Massachusettes Summer 2007 Interviewed by Faye S. Wolfe …Tell us about your work on racial identity. For my dissertation I interviewed people who were black, white, or biracial. I came up with a model for how…
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We are, in fact, at a crucial moment in research on multiraciality. The idea that race is socially, rather than biologically, constructed is well-accepted in academy and is gaining purchase in the larger society. Most recent research related to multiracial identity begins from the standpoint that racial categories are socially constructed and racial identity is…
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..It was always a longstanding, almost obsessive concern with me to attempt to build an existence outside of the world of racism, animosity, and rejection that I felt, separated from other Chinese people. I was told I was not Chinese by both relatives and unrelated people alike and believed that I wasn’t because of it. …
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Hybridity haunts the dreams of racial purity, then but not solely as its structural foil. Certainly the existence of racial “hybrids” infuriated racists, as demonstrated by the efforts of nineteenth-century scientists to prove that mulattos were infertile and would naturally die out. But hybridity also interrupts the ability of race to narrativize time. I find…
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Hybridity refers in its most basic sense to mixture. The term originates from biology and was subsequently employed in linguistics and in racial theory in the nineteenth century. Its contemporary uses are scattered across numerous academic disciplines and is salient in popular culture. This article explains the history of hybridity and its major theoretical discussion…