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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Red and White: Miss E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake and the Other Woman Women’s Writing Volume 8, Issue 3 (2001) pages 359-374 DOI: 10.1080/09699080100200140 Anne Collett, Associate Professor of English Literature University of Wollongong, Australia This essay examines the dramatised conflictual relationship between “Red” and “White” selves in the performed and literary body of “half-blood” poet,…
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The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory [Review: Zack] American Nineteenth Century History Volume 11, Issue 2 (2010) pages 269-270 DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2010.481885 Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory Tavia Nyong’o Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009 Pp. 230. ISBNs 978…
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‘Breed out the Colour’ or the Importance of Being White Australian Historical Studies Volume 33, Issue 120 (2002) pages 286-302 DOI: 10.1080/10314610208596220 Russell McGregor, Associate Professor of History James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia This article examines inter-war proposals to ‘breed out the colour’ of Aborigines of mixed descent. Positioning these proposals in the context…
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New Book Explores Georgetown Inside and Out Georgetown Alumni Online Georgetown University 2010-11-2010 Historian R. Emmett Curran discusses his recently published book, a three-volume history of Georgetown that uncovers little known facts about the university. True or false? 1. In Georgetown’s first decade of existence, nearly 20 percent of its students came from outside the…
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The Born Identity Arise Magazine Issue 12 2011-09-28 Sarah Bentley Photography by Liz Johnson-Artur Thirty-six year-old Egor Belov has just told a childhood anecdote about scrubbing his face until it drew blood. He’d been playing in the snow and wanted pink cheeks like his friends. His dark complexion was never going to turn his desired…
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The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood Hachette Book Group 2001 368 pages 5-1/2″ x 8-1/4″ Paperback ISBN:9780316284615 Kien Nguyen A story of hope, a story of survival, and an incredible journey of escape, ‘The Unwanted’ is the only memoir by an Amerasian who stayed behind in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon and who is…
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MixedRaceStudies.org Reaches 3,000 Posts 2011-10-03 Steven F. Riley MixedRaceStudies.org, called by a preeminent scholar, “the most comprehensive and objective clearinghouse for scholarly publications related to critical mixed-race theory,” and the recipient of other praise has reached its 3,000th post! Created in May 2009 by Steven F. Riley, this free online resource consists of links to: almost…