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: September 2010
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The Language of Ham and the Language of Cain: “Dialect” and Linguistic Hybridity in the Work of Adam Small The Journal of Commonwealth Literature Volume 45, Number 3 (September 2010) pages 389-408 DOI: 10.1177/0021989410377550 Nicole Devarenne, Lecturer in English University of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom The “coloured” South African writer Adam Small has made an…
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Mixed Is/Mixed Ain’t Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2010-08-09 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim, Assistant Director, Multicultural Resource Center and Africana Community Coordinator Oberlin College …As someone who has never passed as anything other than black (and maybe a lil’ somethin’ else from time to time, but always black), I was surprised to find just how…
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In the South African, Namibian, Zambian, Botswana and Zimbabwean context, the term Coloured (also known as Bruinmense, Kleurlinge or Bruin Afrikaners in Afrikaans) refers or referred to an ethnic group of mixed-race people who possess some sub-Saharan African ancestry, but not enough to be considered Black under the law of South Africa. They are mixed…
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Hang Tough, Martina Frear Ensemble Theatre Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 2004-02-27 through 2004-02-29 Saturday at 20:00, Sunday at 14:00 Composed and Performed By: Audrey Pernell In Collaboration with: Vernice Miller and Jessica Nakamura Directed by: Vernice Miller Music: Ralph Denzer The Department of Theater presents an honors thesis project by Audrey Pernell, directed by Vernice…
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Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance University of Michigan Press 2006 256 pages 6 x 9. 29 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-472-09955-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-472-06955-2 Alicia Arrizón, Professor of Women’s Studies University of California, Riverside Winner of the Outstanding Book Award for 2008 from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Co-winner of the 2007 Modern…
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Race-ing Performativity through Transculturation, Taste and the Mulata Body Theatre Research International Volume 27, Number 2 (2002) pages 136-152 DOI: 10.1017/S0307883302000226 Alicia Arrizón, Professor of Women’s Studies University of California, Riverside A Cuban cocktail called mulata inspires an examination of the mulata body. Beyond an analysis of the cocktail as a commercial commodity, the mulata…
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…There is a lot to unpack and a lot of mistruths around this historical concept of mixed race. I’m 40 years of age and some young people ask me if there are any people that are older than me who are mixed race. Because in their minds people who are mixed race are usually, you…
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Filling in the Chasm Between Black and White The Siskiyou Southern Oregon University 2006-02-27 Shannon Luders-Manuel Last week I had the pleasure of attending the lecture by James McBride, having read his memoir a few years ago when I was at my most-heightened search for identity. Without retaining much of the details of his life…