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: October 2009
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Mixed Race Students in College: The Ecology of Race, Identity, and Community on Campus SUNY Press July 2004 308 pages Hardback ISBN10: 0-7914-6163-7; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6163-1 Paperback ISBN10: 0-7914-6164-5; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6164-8 Kristen A. Renn, Associate Professor Michigan State University Portrays the diverse experiences and identities of mixed race college students. Kristen A. Renn offers a new…
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Assimilating Blackness?: Multiple-Race Identification and African American Mate Selection Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel San Francisco, CA 2004-08-14 23 pages Jenifer L. Bratter, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Research Rice University I investigate the influence…
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Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America Mercer University Press 2006 192 pages ISBN (paperback): 9780881460742 ISBN (hardback): 9780881460131 Tim Hashaw Some oppressed groups fought with guns, some fought in court, some exercised civil disobedience; the Melungeons, however, fought by telling folktales. Whites and blacks gave the name “children of perdition” to…
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MALUNGU: The African Origin of the American Melungeons Eclectica Magazine July/August 2001 Tim Hashaw Introduction They settled in Virginia one year before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. They sparked a major conflict between the Engllish Crown and American colonies one hundred and fifty years before the American Revolution. They lived free in the South…
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What Does Race Have to Do with Ugly Betty? An Analysis of Privilege and Postracial(?) Representations on a Television Sitcom Television & New Media Volume 10, Number 6 (November 2009) pages 521-535 DOI: 10.1177/1527476409340906 Jennifer Esposito, Associate Professor of Research, Measurement & Statistics Georgia State University, Atlanta This article examines ABC’s television comedy Ugly Betty,…