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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To discuss the perspective of race in contemporary German literature, it is worthwhile to focus on those writers associated with the programmatic efforts of the Afro-Germans, a heterogeneous, biracial group of individuals usually of German and African or African American heritage and born since 1945. In 1984 the late feminist author and scholar Audre Lorde…
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A focus on Sui Sin Far’s depiction of Eurasian characters and on the subject of interracial marriage illustrates her multifaceted understanding of the crisis in US race relations. Through the treatment of these subjects, she enacts a revolutionary revisioning of race differences. The stories found in Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings, including “Pat and…
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The revisionist celebration of a mixed-race identity negates and eclipses a long history of white men crossing the color line to engage in sex with Black women, usually without their consent. It has rendered invisible violations of Black women while critiquing the strategic efficacy of privileging Black political identities. Although questions of appearance, performance and…
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Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line: Collected Stories Penguin Classics June 2000 304 pages 5.23 x 7.59in Paperback ISBN: 9780141185026 Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) Edited by: William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Unlike the popular “Uncle Remus” stories of Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W.…
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Why race still matters Dædalus Volume 134, Number 1 (Winter 2005) Pages 102-116 DOI: 10.1162/0011526053124460 Ian Hacking, Professor of Philosphy University of Toronto Why has race mattered in so many times and places? Why does it still matter? Put more precisely, why has there been such a pervasive tendency to apply the category of race…
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Postracial Possibilities? Deconstructing Contemporary Discourse on Multiraciality American College Personnel Association ACPA 2012 Annual Convention Louisville, Kentucky 2012-03-24 through 2012-03-28 Session Information: Monday, 2012-03-26 16:15-17:15 EDT (Local Time) Kentucky International Convention Center, 107 Marc Johnston University of California, Los Angeles Prema Chaudhari Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF) Although multiracial individuals have been…