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: July 2011
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Pigmentocracy Freedom’s Story: Teaching African American Literature and History National Humanities Center April 2010 Trudier Harris, J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English, Emerita University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Definition and Background In the past couple of decades, the word pigmentocracy has come into common usage to refer to the distinctions that people of African…
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Into the Arms of America: The Korean Roots of International Adoption The University of Chicago August 2008 248 pages Publication Number: AAT 3322621 ISBN: 9780549742289 Arissa Hyun Jung Oh A Dissertation submitted to the faculty of the division of Social Sciences in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of History This dissertation…
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Critical Narrative of Multiracial Women’s Personal Journey: Negotiating the Intersectionallity of Race and Gender Issues in a Monoracial Paradigm Georgia Southern University June 2011 264 pages Geralda Silva Nelson A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Education The aim of…
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Performative Aspects of Brazilian Music as a Means of Creating Identity in Rio de Janeiro Universität Wien October 2008 215 pages Adriana Ribeiro-Mayer In Rio de Janeiro’s multi-ethnic society with its colonial and slave-based past creating a common identity is a major problem. Standard Portuguese, as opposed to spoken “Brazilian”, is remote to many Brazilians.…