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: April 2012
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Eurasian Women as Tawa’if Singers and Recording Artists: Entertainment and Identity-making in Colonial India African and Asian Studies Volume 8, Issue 3 (2009) pages 268-287 DOI: 10.1163/156921009X458118 Shweta Sachdeva Jha, Assistant Professor of English Miranda House, University College for Women, University of Delhi Scholarship on Eurasians has often addressed issues of migration, collective identity and…
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Racial/Ethnic Variation in Parenting Styles: The Experience of Multiracial Adolescents Bowling Green State University December 2011 57 pages Amanda N. House According to the 2009 American Community Survey, 2.4% of the U.S. population consists of individuals who identify as two or more races, or multiracial. Nearly half of this estimate captures children under the age…
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Racial Classification in Assisted Reproduction Yale Law Journal Volume 118, Issue 8 (June 2009) pages 1844-1898 Dov Fox, Academic Law Research Fellow Georgetown University Law Center This Note considers the moral status of practices that facilitate parental selection of sperm donors according to race. Arguments about intentions and consequences cannot convincingly explain the race-conscious design…
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Traveling with Her Mother’s Tastes: The Negotiation of Gender, Race, and Location in “Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands” Signs Volume 26, Number 4, Globalization and Gender (Summer, 2001) pages 949-981 Sandra Gunning, Professor of English, Afroamerican and African Studies and Women’s Studies University of Michigan The autobiography Wonderful Adventuers of Mrs. Seacole…
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Creole Performance in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Gender & History Volume 15, Issue 3, November 2003 pages 487–506 DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-5233.2003.00317.x Rhonda Frederick, Associate Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies Program Boston College Mary Seacole’s autobiography has been read as a feminist performance as well as a paradigmatic Victorian travel narrative.…
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The idea of nature in “Benito Cereno.” Studies in Short Fiction Spring, 1993 Terry J. Martin Although many critics have analyzed specific natural images in Melville’s Benito Cereno, no one has yet focused exclusively on the role of nature in the novella, nor looked fully at its problematic relation to Delano. Such an examination can…
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Hitting the Right Rhythm to Tell Marley’s Story The New York Times 2012-04-06 John Anderson Of all the friends, lovers, relatives and Rastas that the director Kevin Macdonald wrangled into his new documentary, “Marley,” one of his favorite finds was Dudley Sibley, a onetime recording artist and the janitor at the Jamaican recording studio where…
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Professor Andrew Jolivétte to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (Founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: 252-Professor Andrew Jolivétte When: Wednesday, 2012-04-11, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT) Andrew Jolivétte, Associate Professor of…