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: April 2010
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Fading to white, fading away: biracial bodies in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng and Danzy Senna’s Caucasia African American Review 2006-03-22 Michelle Goldberg However dissimilar individual bodies are, the compelling idea of common, racially indicative bodily characteristics offers a welcome short-cut into the favored forms of solidarity and connection, even if they are effectively denied by divergent…
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Ambiguity and the Ethics of Reading Race and Lynching in James W. Johnson’s “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” (1912) Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies (COPAS) Volume 10 (2009) ISSN: 1861-6127 Carmen Dexl University of Erlangen James Weldon Johnson’s novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) discusses the causes, conditions, and implications of…
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Identity problems in biracial youth The Leader University of Minnesota College of Education & Human Development Fall 2004 Charlote M. Nitardy, Early Childhood Assessment Program Coordinator Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, Minnesota While there is little data on the number of biracial children in the US, there is a consensus among demographers that we are…
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Breaking Barriers for Multiracial Students National Forum of Multicultural Issues Journal Sponsored by The Texas Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education Volume 7, Number 1 (2010) Pages 1-6 Adriana Jones Prairie View A&M University Prairie View, Texas Jeremy Jones Prairie View A&M University Prairie View, Texas The number of multiracial college students has…
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MixedRaceStudies.org A Paper Presented at Who Counts & Who’s Counting? 38th Annual Conference National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference Session: The race in “mixed” race? Reiterations of power and identity Washington, DC 2010-04-10 Steven F. Riley Abstract In the paper I describe the origins of www.MixedRaceStudies.org a non-commercial website that provides a gateway to contemporary interdisciplinary (sociology,…