Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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: December 2011
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One ‘Speck’ of Imperfection—Invisible blackness and the one-drop rule: An interdisciplinary approach to examining Plessy v. Ferguson and Jane Doe v. State of Louisiana Indiana University 2008 371 pages Publication Number: AAT 3315914 ISBN: 9780549675372 Erica Faye Cooper Submitted to the faculty of the University Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the…
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Crossing Lines: Praxis in Mixed Race/Space Studies: Proposal Deadline Crossing Lines: Praxis in Mixed Race/Space Studies 2012-03-16 throught 2012-03-17 University of California, Berkeley Co-Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender and Ethnic Studies Department Call for Proposals – Deadline: 2012-01-15 In traditional Ethnic Studies, mixed race scholarship has often been marginalized, misappropriated,…
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Show me your CDIB: Blood Quantum and Indian Identity among Indian People of Oklahoma American Behavioral Scientist Volume 47, Number 3 (November 2003) pages 267-282 DOI: 10.1177/0002764203256187 James F. Hamill, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Discourse concerning the legitimacy of claims of Indian identity characterize much of the debate in Indian country…
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Sewing Ourselves Together: Clothing, Decorative Arts and the Expression of Métis and Half Breed Identity University of Manitoba 2004 450 pages Sherry Farrell Racette, Professor of Native Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies University of Manitoba A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of…
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Migration and Race Mixture from the Genetic Angle The Eugenics Review Volume 51, Number 2 (July 1959) pages 93-97 Sir Macfarlane Burnet, O.M., F.R.S., Director Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research This paper was prepared at the request of the Department of Immigration for discussion by delegates at the Australian Citizenship Convention. The…
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Mixed-Race Identity in a Nineteenth-Century Family: The Schoolcrafts of Sault Ste. Marie, 1824-27 Michigan Historical Review Volume 25, Number 1 (Spring, 1999) pages 1-23 Jeremy Mumford, Visiting Assistant Professor of History Brown University In the autumn of 1824 the Schoolcraft family set out from Sault Ste. Marie, at the mouth of Lake Superior in northern…
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Some Asians’ college strategy: Don’t check ‘Asian’ The Associated Press 2011-12-04 Jesse Washington, National Writer/Race and Ethnicity Lanya Olmstead was born in Florida to a mother who immigrated from Taiwan and an American father of Norwegian ancestry. Ethnically, she considers herself half Taiwanese and half Norwegian. But when applying to Harvard, Olmstead checked only one…
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Anglo-Indian Identity, Knowledge, and Power: Western Ballroom Music in Lucknow The Drama Review Volume 48, Number 4 (Winter 2004) Pages 167-182 DOI: 10.1162/1054204042442053 Dr. Bradley Shope, Assistant Professor of Music Texas A&M Universtity, Corpus Christi From the 1920s to the 1940s, Anglo-Indians relished Western popular music. For this marginalized group, this music was a way…