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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Challenges and resilience in the lives of urban, multiracial adults: An instrument development study. Journal of Counseling Psychology Volume 58, Issue 4 (October 2011) pages 494-507 DOI: 10.1037/a0024633 Nazish M. Salahuddin Karen M. O’Brian Multiracial Americans represent a rapidly growing population (Shih & Sanchez, 2009); however, very little is known about the types of challenges…
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“Asi lo paresçe por su aspeto”: Physiognomy and the Construction of Difference in Colonial Bogotá Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 91, Number 4 (2011) pages 601-631 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-1416648 Joanne Rappaport, Professor of Anthropology Georgetown University My objective in this article is to examine the relationship between perception and classification in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Andes,…
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“Pure and Noble Indians, Untainted by Inferior Idolatrous Races”: Native Elites and the Discourse of Blood Purity in Late Colonial Mexico Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 91, Number 4 (2011) pages 633-663 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-1416657 Peter B. Villella, Assistant Professor of History University of North Carolina, Greensboro As sixteenth-century Spaniards constructed their global empire, they carried…
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She Just Loved Baseball Black Athlete Sports Network 2010-02-28 Bill Carroll NEW YORK—Effa Manley was seemingly yet another “lost” pioneer in Negro Leagues Baseball before being posthumously honored in 2006 with induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. She was part of a class of players and executives selected by a special committee chaired by…
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Documentary Genocide: Families Surnames on Racial Hit List Richmond Times-Dispatch 2000-03-05 Peter Hardin, Former Washington Correspondent Long before the Indian woman gave birth to a baby boy, Virginia branded him with a race other than his own. The young Monacan Indian mother delivered her son at Lynchburg General Hospital in 1971. Proud of…
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Black Liverpool, Black America, and the Gendering of Diasporic Space Cultural Anthropology Volume 13, Issue 3 (August 1998) pages 291–325 DOI: 10.1525/can.1998.13.3.291 Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hunter College of the City University of New York The terms black Liverpool and black America, no less than the African diaspora, refer to racialized geographies of…
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“My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir,” by Mark Whitaker The Washington Post 2011-10-14 Jonathan Yardley, Critic Now in his mid-50s, Mark Whitaker has had an impressive journalistic career. Fresh out of Harvard in the late 1970s, he went to work at Newsweek and rose steadily through various assignments, eventually becoming its editor. In 2006…