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: November 2011
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Multiracialism cuts its teeth on the denial of this fundamental social truth: not simply that antiblackness is longstanding and ongoing but also that it is unlike other forms of racial oppression in qualitative ways—differences of kind, rather than degree, a structural singularity rather than an empirical anomaly. Jared Sexton, Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique…
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Multiracialism on The Real World and the Reconfiguration of Politics in MTV’s Brand During the 2000s
Multiracialism on The Real World and the Reconfiguration of Politics in MTV’s Brand During the 2000s Popular Communication Volume 8, Issue 2, 2010 pages 132-146 DOI: 10.1080/15405701003676105 Jon Kraszewski, Assistant Professor of Communication Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersery The Real World’s focus on multiracial identity is part of the MTV’s efforts to rebrand…
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Multiracial Identity Development Arlington Public Schools Clarendon Education Center 2801 Clarendon Boulevard, Suite 308 Arlington, Virginia 2011-11-30, 10:00-12:00 EST (Local Time) Have you ever wondered about how children from multiracial backgrounds develop their racial identity? Please join us in welcoming Dr. Ricia Weiner, Ms. Eleanor Lewis, and Ms. Veronica Sanjines, School Psychologists, who will share…
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Ethnicities: Plays from the New West NeWest Press Spring 1999 208 pages paperback ISBN 13: 978-1-896300-03-0 Edited by: Anne Nothof, Professor Emeritus of English Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada Edited by Anne Nothof, the three plays included this anthology all deal with intercultural issues in Canada with humour, wit and at times, heartbreak. They range from…
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Faking It: Poetics & Hybridity: Critical Writing 1984-1999 NeWest Press Spring 2000 288 pages Paperback ISBN 13: 978-1-896300-07-8 Fred Wah According to Fred Wah, the act of thinking critically is one of exploration and discovery. In Faking It, Wah demonstrates how writing poetry is writing critically. This scrapbook of Wah’s work—collected from fifteen years of…
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Diamond Grill (10th Anniversary Edition) NeWest Press Fall 2006 208 pages paperback ISBN 13: 978-1-897126-11-0 Fred Wah This story of family and identity, migration and integration, culture and self-discovery is told through family history, memory, and the occasional recipe. Diamond Grill is a rich banquet where Salisbury steak shares a menu with chicken fried rice,…
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ENGL 490: Multi-Ethnic and Mixed-Race Identities in Literature and Film University of British Columbia Winter 2011 Glenn Deer, Assistant Professor of English This course will examine literary and selected filmic representations of interracial and inter-ethnic identities, mixed-race relationships and intermarriage, and bicultural communities in comparative national and international contexts. We shall be especially concerned with…