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: January 2010
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Drawing Battle Lines Sarah Lawrence College Magazine Spring 2003: Who Are You Catherine McKinley[-Davis] was one of only a few thousand African-American and biracial children adopted by white couples in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Throughout her childhood and adolescence, her consciousness grew as she did. Her very identity—composed both of the whiteness and…
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Mestizaje Upside-Down: Aesthetic Politics in Modern Bolivia University of Pittsburgh Press May 2004 240 pages 6 x 9 ISBN: 9780822942276 Javier C. Sanjinés, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies University of Michigan Mestizaje refers to the process of cultural, ethnic, and racial mixture that is part of cultural identity in Latin America.…
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A Letter to My Father: Growing up Filipina and American University of Oklahoma Press 2008 184 pages 5.5″ x 8.5″ x 0″ 8 b&w illustrations, 2 maps Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8061-3909-8 Helen Madamba Mossman Going from the jungles of the wartime Philippines to the schoolyards of northwestern Oklahoma is no easy transition. For one twelve-year-old girl,…
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The surprising truth about intermarriage in 19th-Century California
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Family Identity: Black-White Interracial Family Health Experience Journal of Family Nursing (2006) Vol. 12, No. 1 Pages 22-37 DOI: 10.1177/1074840705285213 Marcia Marie Byrd, PhD, RN College of St. Catherine Ann Williams Garwick, PhD, RN, LP, LMFT, FAAN University of Minnesota The purpose of this interpretive descriptive study was to describe how eight Black-White couples with…
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Tragic Mulatto Girl Wonder: The paradoxical life of Philippa Duke Schuyler QBR The Black Book Review February/March 1996 Lise Funderburg Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler by Kathryn Talalay Oxford University Press (317 pp.) Hardcover ISBN 0-19-509608-8 As a child prodigy, pianist and composer, Philippa Duke Schuyler incited both awe and…
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The first authorized biography of Philippa Schuyler, “Composition in Black and White” draws on previously unpublished letters and diaries to reveal an extraordinary and complex personality.