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: February 2011
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A conversation with Daniel J. Sharfstein (Author of The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White) The Penguin Press January 2011 Lauren Hodapp, Senior Publicist The Penguin Press Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey…
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Mixed Matters: Mixed-race pupils discuss school and identity Troubador Publishing March 2011 128 pages 198×127 mm ISBN: 9781848765719 Denise Williams Mixed Matters responds to the dearth of literature about the experiences of mixed-race pupils in British schools. It seeks to examine how much credence schools should give to pupil identities when one parent is white…
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Room For Debate: The ‘Two or More Races’ Dilemma The New York Times 2011-02-13 In Room for Debate, The New York Times invites knowledgeable outside contributors to discuss news events and other timely issues. Introduction An article in a Times series on the growing mixed-race population in the United States describes a debate over new…
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Race, Sex and the Trials of a Young Explorer The New York Times 2011-02-13 Richard Conniff In 1859, Paul Du Chaillu, a young explorer of French origin and adopted American nationality, wandered out of the jungle after a four-year expedition in Gabon. He brought with him complete specimens of 20 gorillas, an animal almost unknown…
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Neither Black nor White: The Saga of an American Family The New World Africa Press 2006-03-03 252 pages 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ISBN-10: 0976876124; ISBN-13: 978-0976876120 Joseph E. Holloway, Professor of Pan African Studies California State University, Northridge Historical novel, which traces the history of the Hadnot family from Gloucester, England in 1585…
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Hollywood’s Whiteout The New York Times 2011-02-11 Manohla Dargis A. O. Scott CRAMMED into this year’s field of 10 best picture Oscar nominees are British aristocrats, Volvo-driving Los Angeles lesbians, a flock of swans, a gaggle of Harvard computer geeks, clans of Massachusetts fighters and Missouri meth dealers, as well as 19th-century bounty hunters, dream…