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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Working with multiracial clients in therapy: Bridging theory, research, and practice Professional Psychology: Research and Practice Vol 39(2) Apr 2008 pages 192-201 Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, Associate Professor California Polytechnic State University Lisa M. Edwards, Assistant Professor, Director of Child/Adolescent Community Program Marquette University Shane J. Lopez The growing multiracial population has resulted in a need…
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A content and methodological review of articles concerning multiracial issues in six major counseling journals Journal of Counseling Psychology Vol 55(3) Jul 2008 pages 411-418 Lisa M. Edwards, Assistant Professor, Director of Child/Adolescent Community Program Marquette University Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, Associate Professor California Polytechnic State University This study describes a comprehensive content and methodological review…
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The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis (Book Review) Journal of Southern History Vol. 67 2001 Lloyd A. Hunter Franklin College of Indiana The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. By Cyprian Clamorgan. Edited and with an introduction by Julie Winch. (Columbia, Mo., and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 1999. Pp. xiv, 122. $27.50, ISBN 0-8262-1236-0.)…
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In 1858, Cyprian Clamorgan wrote a brief but immensely readable book entitled “The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis.” The grandson of a white voyageur and a mulatto woman, he was himself a member of the “colored aristocracy.” In a setting where the vast majority of African Americans were slaves, and where those who were free…
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Blind Boone: Missouri’s Ragtime Pioneer University of Missouri Press 1998 136 pages 6 x 9. Biblio. Index. 25 illus. ISBN: 0-8262-1198-4 Jack A. Batterson Often overlooked by ragtime historians, John William “Blind” Boone had a remarkably successful and influential music career that endured for almost fifty years. Blind Boone: Missouri’s Ragtime Pioneer provides the first…
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What does it mean to be a “mixed-blood,” and how has our understanding of this term changed over the last two centuries? What processes have shaped American thinking on racial blending? Why has the figure of the mixed-blood, thought too offensive for polite conversation in the nineteenth century, become a major representative of twentieth-century native…