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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Spring 2008 Feature: Acting on a Dream Farmington First: Alumni Magazine University of Maine, Farmington Spring 2008 Marc Glass The stages of H’Nette DeTroy’s dramatic life include theater, dance and even commercial casting Looking at H’Nette DeTroy’s resume, you might think she suffers from career wanderlust. Since graduating from UMF in 2006, she’s been a…
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Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State University of Manitoba Press November 2008 314 pages 6 × 9 Paper, ISBN: 978-0-88755-734-7 Jennifer Reid, Professor of Religion University of Maine, Farmington Politician, founder of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis, Louis Riel led two resistance movements against the Canadian…
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Books: Black and white thinking The Christian Century 2012-01-26 Edward P. Antonio, Associate Professor of Theology and Social Theory Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado Brian Bantum. Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2010. 260 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781602582934. Redeeming Mulatto presents a complex argument about theology and…
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The new black theology: Retrieving ancient sources to challenge racism The Christian Century 2012-01-26 Jonathan Tran, Assistant Professor of Religion Baylor University, Waco, Texas Read Edward Antonio’s review of Brian Bantum’s Redeeming Mulatto (subscription required) A couple years ago, when the Century asked some leading theologians to name five “essential theology books of the past…
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Episode 13: An ‘All-American’ Student Leader’s Search for Identity Say Something: College Life. One Student at a Time. The Chronicle of Higher Education 2011-03-25 Robin Wilson “One assumes it’s very hard to be religious and still be gay.” Ari Shroyer Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois In this episode, we hear from Ari Shroyer, a sophomore…
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Mulatto Machiavelli, Jean Pierre Boyer, and The Haiti of His Day John Edward Baur The Journal of Negro History Volume 32, Number 3 (July, 1947) pages 307-353 Toussaint Louverture opened the gate of Haitian liberty, but Jean Pierre Boyer kept it open. Toussaint, ” First of the Blacks,” may be called the Washington of Haiti, but…
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Census releases data on American Indian population Miami Herald 2012-01-25 Felicia Fonseca Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Almost half of American Indians and Alaska Natives identify with multiple races, representing a group that grew by 39 percent over a decade, according to U.S. Census data released Wednesday. Of the 5.2 million people counted as Natives…
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Telling His Story, Keeping His Promises: MOsley WOtta as performer and father True North Central Oregon Parenting January/February 2012 Michelle Bazemore photography by Kimberly Teichrow Note from Steven F. Riley: I will be the co-host on the February 22, 2012 podcast of Mixed Chicks Chat with featured guest Jason Graham. It’s difficult to spend time…
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Yellow Rose of Texas The Handbook of Texas Online Texas State Historical Association 2012-01-21 Jeffrey D. Dunn James Lutzweiler “The Yellow Rose of Texas,” one of the iconic songs of modern Texas and a popular traditional American tune, has experienced several transformations of its lyrics and periodic revivals in popularity since its appearance in the…
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50 African Americans Who Forever Changed Academia Online College 2012-01-24 Black History Month is celebrated every February as a time to recognize and honor African-Americans who made great contributions to some aspect of life in this country. Major figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks are often honored, but many lesser-known men and…