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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Day: December 1, 2011
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The Political Ontology of Race Polity 2011-10-17 DOI: 10.1057/pol.2011.15 Michael Rabinder James, Associate Professor of Political Science Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Race theory is dominated by two camps. Eliminativists rely on a biological ontology, which contends that the concept of race must be biologically grounded, in order to repudiate the very term, on grounds…
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Daniel Sharfstein, “The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White” Penguin, 2011 New Books in African American Studies Discussions with Scholars of African Americans about their New Books 2011-11-01 Vershawn Young, Associate Professor of English University of Kentucky Daniel Sharfstein’s The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret…
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Escape into Whiteness The New York Review of Books 2011-11-24 Brent Staples Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781594202827. Tickets to the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial were a hot item in the spring of…
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Playing in the dark/ playing in the light: Coloured identity in the novels of Zoë Wicomb Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa Volume 20, Issue 1, 2008 pages 1-15 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2008.9678286 J. U. Jacobs, Senior Professor of English and Fellow University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Zoë Wicomb’s three fictional works—You Can’t Get Lost…
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Brazil: Census “Reveals” Majority of Population is Black or Mixed Race Global Voices 2011-11-29 Written by: Paula Góes Translated by: Maisie Fitzpatrick [All links lead to Portuguese language pages except when otherwise noted.] For the first time in Brazilian history, the national census has shown that the majority of the population, 50.7% of a total…