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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Eurasian/Amerasian perspectives: Kim Lefèvre’s Métisse Blanche (White Métisse) and Kien Nguyen’s The Unwanted Asian Studies Review Volume 29, Issue 2 (2005) pages 107-122 DOI: 10.1080/10357820500221162 Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen, Associate Professor of Historical and Philosophical Studies University of Melbourne This article examines the articulation of Kim Lefèvre’s and Kien Nguyen’s difficult and traumatic childhoods in…
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2010 Census Shows Black Population has Highest Concentration in the South United States Census Bureau CB11-CN.185 2011-09-29 People Who Reported as Both Black and White More than Doubled The U.S. Census Bureau released today a 2010 Census brief, The Black Population: 2010, that shows 14 percent of all people in the United States identified as…
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No stigma was associated [in the early 1600s] with what we today call intermarriages. Black men servants often married white women servants. Records from one county reveal that one fourth of the children born to European servant girls were mulatto (Breen and Ennis 1980). Historian Anthony Parent (2003) notes that five out of ten black…
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“Home is Nowehere”: Negotiating Identities in Colonized Worlds University of Georgia 2007 57 pages Julia A. Tigner A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS The Bildungsroman, a term that derived from German literary criticism, is a genre of…
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Regulating Race: Interracial Relationships, Community, and Law in Jim Crow Alabama University of Georgia 2008 96 pages L. Kathryn Tucker A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS This thesis, based largely on legal cases concerning miscegenation in Alabama,…
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The Antisocial Escape of William Faulkner’s Tragic Mulattoes University of Georgia 2008 34 pages Courtney Thomas A Thesis Submitted to the Honors Council of the University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree BACHELOR OF ARTS in ENGLISH with HONORS With the characters of Charles Bon in Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and…
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Biracial Student Voices University of Georgia 2008 140 pages Willie L. Banks Jr., Associate Dean of Student Life Cleveland State University A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILISOPHY The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences…
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Towards a Dialogic Understanding of Print Media Stories About Black/White Interracial Families University of Georgia 2003 160 pages Victor Kulkosky A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS This thesis examines print media news stories about Black/White interracial families…