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 2011
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Stories and survival’: An Interview with Jackie Kay Wasafiri Volume 25, Issue 4, 2010 pages 19-22 DOI: 10.1080/02690055.2010.510366 Maggie Gee Jackie Kay has had a glittering career as a writer of poetry, fiction and drama for both adults and children. She was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian…
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The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics MIT Press January 2009 368 pages 7 x 9, 35 illus. Paper ISBN-10: 0-262-58275-9; ISBN-13: 978-0-262-58275-9 Evelynn M. Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies (and Dean of Harvard College)…
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Nationality demands solidarity. And you can never get solidarity in a nation of equal rights out of two hostile races that do not intermarry. In a Democracy you can not build a nation inside of a nation of two antagonistic races, and therefore the future American must be either an Anglo Saxon or a Mulatto.…
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In my first marriage I paid my compliments to my mother’s race; in my second marriage I paid my compliments to the race of my father. Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
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…being mulatto is longing for oneself [o mulato é saudade de si mesmo] just like the despised hermaphrodite outcries the conflict between the sexes… the mestiço is thus an unexpected being in the plan of the world, an unfortunate experiment of the Portuguese. Mendes Correia, 1940: 122
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Glenn Robinson to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #227? – Glenn Robinson When:…
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“Never Was Born”: The Mulatto, an American Tragedy? The Massachusetts Review Volume 27, Number 2 (Summer, 1986) page 293-316 Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Afro American Studies; Director of the History of American Civilization Program Harvard University In my first marriage I paid my compliments to my…
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Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark as a Trans-Atlantic Tragic Mulatta Narrative Sargasso: Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture Volume I (2009-2010) pages 79-92 Ania Spyra, Assistant Professor of English Butler University “pretty useful mask that white one.” —Jean Rhys, Voyage In the Dark Images of masks and masking surface repeatedly in Jean Rhys’s…