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: January 2012
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American Indians with African Ancestry: Differential Fertility and the Complexities of Social Identity Human Ecology Volume 39, Number 6 (December 2011) page 727-742 DOI: 10.1007/s10745-011-9439-2 Michael H. Logan, Professor of Anthropology University of Tennessee, Knoxville Interethnic marriage represents a major trend in the demographic history of American Indians. While the majority of these unions involved Indian…
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Perspective on Mixed-Blood Natives: The Silence of Indian Country Native News Network Native Condition: Analysis and Opinion 2011-09-22 Mike Raccoon Eyes Eastern Band of the Cherokee Quallah, North Carolina SAN FRANCISCO—Cherokee culture was steeped deeply into the great Meso-American pyramid temple cities as early as 800 AD. When the Olmecs, Toltecs, Mayans and Aztecs were…
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28. Hapa Issues: Asian Americans of Mixed Racial Descent Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Spring 2010 Growing numbers of inter-racial marriages and the products of these marriages—children of mixed racial descent—have contributed to the increasing diversity of America in the 21st century. Reflecting this heterogeneity, the 2000 Census allowed people to claim more than one background…
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44. Afro-Latin America Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Spring 2010 (Offered as History 56 [LA] and Black Studies 44 [D, CLA].) This course explores the historical experiences of Afro-Latin populations since Independence within and outside the nation-state. The course asks how and why one might study those whose governments define them not as peoples of African…
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Glimpse of a Visionary: Jeffrey Campbell ’33 St. Lawrence University Magazine Winter 2006 Steve Peraza ’06 Jeffrey Campbell ’33 is generally thought of as St. Lawrence’s first African-American graduate. In a University Fellowship paper, Steve Peraza ’06, a history and sociology double major from New York City, contends that Campbell deserves to be recognized on…
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English 108: Crossing Racial Boundaries in Post-Civil Rights Fiction and Film: Interracial Encounters University of California, Los Angeles Winter 2012 Caroline Streeter, Associate Professor of English This course looks at literature and film depicting interracial sexuality and mixed race identities in the post-Civil Rights era. Course materials depict individuals and communities that trouble and challenge…
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ROMST 200.01: Critical Approaches to Mestizaje Duke University Spring 2012 Claudia Milian, Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Romance Studies; African & African American Studies This seminar will examine critical theories of mestizaje, miscegenation, mixed race, and hybridity as articulated in Latino, Latin American, and African-American projects of racial identification and classification. In particular, the…
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ASAM 187. Asian Pacific American Mixed Race Issues Pomona College, Claremont, California Spring 2008 Course will explore the lives of racially and ethnically mixed people, focusing on Asian Pacific Americans. As intermarriage rates increase for all groups, the experiences of multiracial people reflect in distinctive ways the cultural and identity choices that individuals and communities…
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FYS 102N: Exploring Mixed Identities University of Maryland, Baltimore County Fall 2011 The aim of this course is to move beyond prevalent monoracial discourses by examining identities and experiences from a mixed race/mixed ethnicity perspective. This course explores many topics such as the history of racialization, processes of othering, acceptance and the politics of claiming,…