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: March 2012
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No School Left Behind: Providing Equal Educational Opportunities: Where Have All the Lovings Gone?: The Continuing Relevance of the Movement for a Multiracial Category and Racial Classification After Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 Journal of Gender, Race & Justice Volume 11, Number 3, Spring 2008 pages 409-452 Shalini R.…
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Am I that Race? Punjabi Mexicans and Hybrid Subjectivity, or How To Do Theory So That It Doesn’t Do You Hastings Women’s Law Journal Volume 21, Number 2 (Summer 2010) page 311-332 Falguni A. Sheth, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts I. INTRODUCTION This paper explores the conceptual and…
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Reading Boddo’s Body: Crossing the Borders of Race and Sexuality in Whitman’s “Half-Breed” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review Volume 22, Number 2 (Fall 2004) pages 87-107 Thomas C. Gannon, Associate Professor of English University of Nebraska, Lincoln Offers an extended cultural reading of Whitman’s early story “The Half-Breed,” focusing on psychosexual and post-colonial implications of the…
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Clara como el Agua PBS Online Film Festival 2012-03-05 Duration: 00:12:20 Fernanda Rossi, Director She’s white. She’s also black. Mostly, she’s rejected. Clara is the only light-skinned and clear-eyed girl in an all-black neighborhood in Puerto Rico. The children tease her endlessly, telling her that her father is some “gringo” tourist with whom her mother…
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RTF 386 – Beyond Binaries: Mixed Race Representation and Critical Theory University of Texas, Austin Spring 2012 Mary Beltrán, Associate Professor of Media Studies This graduate seminar surveys historical and critical and cultural studies scholarship on the evolution of mixed race in U.S. film and media culture. American histories, cultures, and identities have traditionally been…