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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Day: August 31, 2010
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Review of Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor’s Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) History News Network December 2009 Renee Romano, Associate Professor of History Oberlin College “Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness” (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) On a fall…
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Thinking outside the box: Racial self-identification choice among mixed heritage adolescents University of Pennsylvania 2009 234 pages ISBN: 9781109236088 Michele Munoz-Miller A Dissertation in Education Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The purpose of this study was to explore…
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The physical and mental health of multiracial adolescents in the United States University of Pennsylvania 2007 101 pages ISBN: 9780549117445 Jamie Mihoko Doyle Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania A dissertation in Demographic Presented to Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy…
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At the federal university in Brazil’s capital city, Brasília, a special committee was constituted in 2004 to evaluate the application file photographs of self-classified negros (read “blacks” or “Afro-Brazilians”) applying to the university via a new racial quota system. An anthropologist, a sociologist, a student representative, and three negro movement actors make up that committee,…
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“A gallant heart to the empire.” Autoethnography and Imperial identity in Mary Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures Philological Quarterly Volume 83, Number 2, Spring, 2004 Sarah Salih, Professor of English University of Toronto A portrait of Mary Seacole in oils, c. 1869, by the obscure London artist Albert Charles Challen (1847–81). The original was discovered in 2003…
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The rape which you gentlemen have done against helpless black women in defiance of your own laws is written on the foreheads of millions of mulattoes, and in ineffable blood. W. E. B. DuBois
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The Silence of Miss Lambe: Sanditon and Fictions of ‘Race’ in the Abolition Era Eighteenth-Century Fiction Volume 18, Issue 3 (Spring 2006) pages 329-353 Sarah Salih, Professor of English University of Toronto Although it would be difficult to argue that Sanditon (1817) is “historical” in any immediately obvious sense, it is nonetheless clear that the…