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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Quadroon Balls functioned as a form of entertainment but also served a meeting space for its participants to enter into plaçage/sexual relationships. It was at these dances that free young women of color, guided by their mothers, charmed their way into the hearts and pockets of Louisiana’s white males. At the balls, quadroon women “show…
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The use of the term “colored” was coined by mixed-race people (Ottley 1968:95). In the eighteenth century this population and their descendants created their own caste system, which was marked by color and class. In one case in South Carolina, mixed-race people formed the Brown Fellowship Society, an exclusive mulatto organization that I will discuss…
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The Mulatto Cyborg: Imagining a Multiracial Future Cinema Journal Volume 44, Number 2 (Winter, 2005) pages 34-49 Leilani Nishime, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington Applying the literature of passing to cyborg cinema makes visible the politics of cyborg representations and illuminates contemporary conceptions of mixed-race subjectivity and interpolations of mixed-race bodies. The passing…
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Psychological Adjustment, Behavior and Health Problems in Multiracial Young Adults University of Maryland, College Park 2006 236 pages Warren L. Kelley Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2006 This study: (1) examined…
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Challenges and Resilience in the Lives of Multiracial Adults: The Development and Validation of a Measure Nazish M. Salahuddin University of Maryland, College Park 2008 141 pages Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of…