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: November 1, 2010
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Turning Aboriginal—Historical Bents borderlands: e-journal Volume 7, Number 2 (2008) pages 1-19 Regina Ganter, Associate Professor, School of Humanities Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Under the pressures of binary identity politics the search for Aboriginal identity among people of mixed descent has become a Russian roulette that may end up with a public hanging where those…
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The offspring of interracial unions were threatening to whites primarily because they blurred the lines between what many of them understood to be a naturally superior white race and a naturally inferior black race. As long as there was a clear distinction between the two racial categories—in other words, as long as the two categories…
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Making Race: The Role of Free Blacks in the Development of New Orleans’ Three-Caste Society, 1791-1812 University of Texas, Austin May 2007 219 pages Kenneth Randolph Aslakson, Assistant Professor of History Union College, Schenectady, New York Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment…
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The designs for cultural programs on most campuses seem to imply that students possess mono-cultural identities. However, with the increase in bi-racial and multi-racial students on campus, it is time for student affairs leaders to question the design for these programs.