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: October 2010
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Introducing a new star of her generation, an electric debut story collection about young African-American and mixed-race teens, women, and men struggling to find a place in their families and communities.
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The Japanese in multiracial Peru, 1899-1942 University of California, San Diego November 2009 335 pages Publication Number: AAT 3355652 Stephanie Carol Moore This study analyzes the integration of the Japanese into the politics of race and nation in Peru during the period from 1899 to 1942. The first generation of Japanese immigrants arrived in Peru…
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Mulatto Nation: An installation by Lezley Saar The List Gallery at Swarthmore College 2003-02-28 through 2003-03-30 Lezley Saar From: Mulattos at War: Battle of ‘Halfway’ Historian Lezley Saar, professor emerita from MU (Mulatto University) and a lifelong outspoken activist for the Mulatto Movement, traces the history of the Mulatto Nation from its bumpy beginnings to…
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“My father is black and my mother is white and my brother is a vegetable.” When Emma Boudreaux’s older brother winds up in a coma after a freak accident, she loses her compass: only Bernie was able to navigate—if not always diplomatically—the terrain of their biracial identity. And although her father and brother are bound…
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Black and white sexual pairings, therefore, became a widespread phenomenon that originated from a demographic imbalance, but expanded and developed through a cultural fetishization of women of color. The islands, built upon complex systems of violence and sexual control, promoted and legitimated interracial relationships. Caribbean visitors certainly held this impression. Pierre McCallum emphasized the importance…
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Mixing Blood: What Does “Biracialism” Do to the Notion of “Race”? [Book Review] PINS (Psychology in Society) Volume 31 (2005) pages 99-105 Gerhard Maré, Professor of Sociology University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban Book review: Rockquemore, Kerry Ann & David L. Brunsma (2002) Beyond Black: Biracial identity in America. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. ISBN 0-7619-2322-5 pbk. Pages…
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Between Race; Beyond Race: The Experience of Self-Identification of Indian-White Biracial Young Adults and the factors Affecting their Choices of Identity PINS (Psychology in Society) Issue 34 (2006) pages 1-16 Dennis Francis, Dean of Education University of The Free State, South Africa This study, based on my doctoral research, is an exploration of how nine…