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: February 2012
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Rice Outside the Paddy: The Form and Function of Hybridity in a Thai Novel Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Volume 11, Number 1 (1997) pages 51-78 Jan R. Weisman This paper examines some of the problematic issues of racial hybridity in contemporary Thailand through an analysis of the fictional portrayal of Thai…
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Impostors: EUST-235 Amherst College Spring 2012 Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Deborah R. Dizard, Visiting Lecturer in European Studies An interdisciplinary exploration of the causes behind the social, racial, artistic, and political act—and art—of posing, passing, or pretending to be someone else. Blacks passing for whites, Jews passing for gentiles,…
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José Vasconcelos: The Prophet of Race Rutgers University Press 2011-05-07 142 pages 5.5 x 8.5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5063-3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5064 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-5104-3 Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Mexican educator and thinker José Vasconcelos is to Latinos what W.E.B. Du Bois is to African Americans—a…
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“The Girl Isn’t White”: New Racial Dimensions in Octavia Butler’s Survivor Extrapolation Volume 47, Number 1 (2006) pages 35-50 DOI: 10.3828/extr.2006.47.1.6 ISSN: 0014-5483 (Print); 2047-7708 (Online) Crystal S. Anderson, Associate Professor of English Department Elon University, Elon, North Carolina Since the publication of her first novel, Octavia Butler’s popularity has increased, making her now a…
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Panel to discuss racism and medical issues The Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2012-02-10 Ariana Ricarte The topic of racism in health care, genetics and other medical issues will be the central point of discussion at a panel in De Neve Auditorium on Saturday [13:00-15:00 PST]. The panel, called “Race in Medicine: A…
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The History and Evolution of Racism and Discrimination in Sierra Leone The Sierra Leone Daily Mail 2012-02-10 In 1961, the independence constitution of Sierra Leone created a single nationality, without any distinction by race, ethnic group or sex. ‘Every person’ born in the former colony or protectorate who was a citizen of the United Kingdom…
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Nationalism, Racism and Propaganda in Early Weimar Germany: Contradictions in the Campaign against the ‘Black Horror on the Rhine’ German History Volume 30, Issue 1 (March, 2012) pages 45-74 DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghr124 Julia Roos, Associate Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington During the early 1920s, an average of 25,000 colonial soldiers from North Africa, Senegal and…
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Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860 McFarland 2012 [Originally Published by University of South Carolina press in 1985] 300 pages 6 x 9 Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7864-6931-4 Larry Koger, Historian Most Americans, both black and white, believe that slavery was a system maintained by whites to exploit blacks, but this authoritative study…