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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Fearless Music: Garland Jeffreys ’65 Syracuse University Magazine Volume 28, Number 3 (Fall/Winter 2011) David Marc From his ’70s hit “Wild in the Streets” to his latest album, legendary singer-songwriter Garland Jeffreys has taken on life’s big issues with his own eclectic brand of music From the pages of The New Yorker to deep inside…
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Jarocho’s Soul: Cultural Identity and Afro-Mexican Dance University Press of America (an Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) February 2004 182 pages Size: 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7618-2775-7 Anita González, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Theatre Arts State University of New York, New Paltz Brown-skinned men and women move across Mexico’s national…
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In this exploration of race and racism, noted scholar Lewis R. Gordon offers a critique of recent scholarship in postcolonial Africana philosophy and critical race theory, and suggests alternative models that respond to what he calls our contemporary neocolonial age; an age in which cultural, intellectual, and economic forms of colonial domination persist.
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‘all my Slaves, whether Negroes, Indians, Mustees, Or Molattoes.’: Towards a Thick Description of ‘Slave Religion’ The American Religious Experience 1999 Patrick Neal Minges The time was in the late 1760’s and the place was Charleston, S.C. A young musician was on his way to a performance with his french horn tucked under his arm.…
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When Anita Florence Hemmings applied to Vassar in 1893, there was nothing in her records to indicate that she would be any different from the 103 other girls who were entering the class of 1897. But by August 1897, the world as well as the college had discovered her secret: Anita Hemmings was Vassar’s first…
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AIS 350 : Black-Indians in the Americas San Francisco State University Fall 2011 In this course students will be introduced to some of the major sociological and historical factors that have given rise to multiracial cultural identities in American Indian communities throughout the Americas and the Caribbean with a specific focus on Black-Indians within American…
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Variations in Multiracial Identity Integration California State University, Los Angeles 2012-02-10 Patricia Y. Singim The purpose of this study was to explore how multiracial people integrate their racial identities and if this integration was related to well-being. Furthermore, differences based on type of mix (half White vs. mixed with groups of color), positive interactions with…
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Population structure and admixture in Cerro Largo, Uruguay, based on blood markers and mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms American Journal of Human Biology Volume 18, Issue 4 (July/August 2006) pages 513–524 DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20520 Mónica Sans Departamento de Antropología Biológica, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación Universidad de la República D. Andrew Merriwether Department of Anthropology…