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: July 2010
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Questions for Maya Soetoro-Ng: All in the Family The New York Times 2008-01-20 Deborah Solomon Q: Let’s talk about the Democratic presidential caucuses taking place on Feb. 19, in Hawaii, where Barack Obama was born. Will you be campaigning for your brother? Yes, of course. I have taken time off from my various teaching jobs…
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Seeking Race Transcenders to Participate in Racial Identity Study Carlos Hoyt, a Ph.D. student at Simmons College in Boston, is currently seeking individuals who are commonly identified as black or African American (including biracial or black-multiethnic), but who do not define themselves according to the social construct of race. Hoyt’s study will give race transcenders the…
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ENGLISH 261E: Mixed Race Literature in the U.S. and South Africa (seminar) Stanford University Department of English Winter Quarter, 2010-2011 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Grant Parker, Associate Professor of Classics Stanford Univeristy As scholar Werner Sollors recently suggested, novels, poems,…
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If blackness in America has been defined broadly enough to claim me as one of its own, that still leaves the question of why I claim my blackness. I could call myself mixed race or even Latina/Hispanic. I certainly recognize that I am multi-racial, but I don’t feel a common bond with mixed people simply…
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Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family University of Chicago Press 2004 200 pages 22 halftones, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Cloth ISBN: 9780226318219 Paper ISBN: 9780226318233 Ronne Hartfield In her prologue to Another Way Home, Ronne Hartfield notes the dearth of stories about African Americans who have occupied the area of…