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 31, 2011
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Although I am representing the reality of black mixed heritage being closely linked, if not almost the same, to the “full black” experience of British footballers, this does not mean that a black mixed heritage player cannot or should not celebrate his multiracial identity. Of course individuals should define themselves how they want to, and…
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Baseline Study on Diversity Segments: Multirace Americans Institute for Public Relations Gainesville, Florida January 2008 15 pages Bey-Ling Sha, Ph.D., APR, Professor of Journalism and Media Studies San Diego State University Sponsored in part by ConAgra Foods, Inc. Public relations practitioners and scholars need to consider multirace Americans as an increasingly important public, with identities,…
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Race Mixture and Physical Disharmonies Science Magazine Volume 71, Number 1850 (1930-06-13) pages 603-606 DOI: 10.1126/science.71.1850.603 W. E. Castle (1867-1962) Bussey Institution, Harvard Professor H. S. Jennings in his recent book on “The Biological Basis of Human Nature” devotes a chapter to the subject of race mixture and its consequences. Considering first the purely physical…
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Consequently, the celebration of “both worlds” in terms of black mixed heritage persons has always been problematic in relation to it being a rather superficial exercise, limited to one’s inner circle of family and friends. It is pretty obvious that most persons of black mixed heritage will hold a deep love for a parent that…
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Trans-American Modernisms: Racial Passing, Travel Writing, and Cultural Fantasies of Latin America University of Southern California August 2009 311 pages Ruth Blandón Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) In my historical examination of the literary…