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: December 2010
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It is known that neither the Indian nor Negro contends in dignity and esteem with the Spaniard; nor do any of the others envy the lot of the Negro, who is the “most dispirited and despised”. […] It is held as systematic that a Spaniard and an Indian produce a mestizo; a mestizo and a…
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The whole story on being ‘hafu’ CNN International CNN Go 2010-11-29 Daniel Krieger The movie ‘Hafu’ explores the limbo world of people who are half-Japanese and half something else, as they try to find their place in society What does it mean to be half-Japanese in 21st-century Japan? This is what filmmakers Megumi Nishikura and…
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Biracial Youth and Families in Therapy: Issues and Interventions Journal of Marital and Family Therapy Volume 26, Issue 3 (July 2000) pages 305–315 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2000.tb00300.x Stephanie Milan, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Connecticut Margaret K. Keiley, Professor Director of Clinical Research Center for Children, Youth, and Families Auburn University Empirical research and clinical resources…
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Will there ever be a rainbow Japan? CNN International CNN Go 2010-12-01 Tracy Slater Government statistics suggest multiculturalism is on the rise, but social organizations for mixed-race Japanese say ‘hafus’ still face challenges Japan, which closed its borders from 1639 to 1854 and later colonized its neighbors, has an uneasy history with foreigners, national identity,…
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Cross ’12, Castagno ’12 Participate in Mixed Race Conference The Wesleyan Connecton Welyean University’s Newsletter 2010-12-02 Olivia Drake Rachel Cross ’12 and Alicia Castagno ’12 participated as panel members in a session of the Critical Mixed Race Conference sponsored by dePaul University in Chicago Nov. 5-6 [2010]. The conference was attended by academicians and students…
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Destabilizing Racial Classifications Based on Insights Gleaned from Trademark Law California Law Review Volume 84, Number 4 (July, 1996) pages 887-952 Alex M. Johnson, Jr., Perre Bowen Professor of Law; Thomas F. Bergin Teaching Professor of Law and Director, Center for the Study of Race and Law University of Virginia Analogy to trademark law offers…
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“What Are You?”: Exploring Racial Categorization in “Nowhere Else on Earth” The Southern Literary Journal Volume 39, Number 1 (Fall, 2006) pages 33-53 Erica Abrams Locklear, Assistant Professor of Literature & Language University of North Carolina, Asheville In his introduction to the 1985 collection of essays entitled “Race,” Writing, and Difference, Henry Louis Gates rightfully…
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The Coe Ridge Colony: A Racial Island Disappears American Anthropologist Volume 74, Issue 3 (June 1972) pages 710–719 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00350 Lynwood Montell Western Kentucky University The ninety year history of a racial isolate in the Kentucky–Tennessee border is examined. Peopled by a mixed population of Whites, Blacks, and, occasionally, Indians, the community received notoriety as…