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: May 2012
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English R1A: Keeping it Real?: Racial & Queer Passing in American Literature University of California, Berkeley Fall 2010 Rosa Martinez “I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.” —Kafka Was the Rage by Anatole Broyard This course intends to explore the “art” of racial passing and masquerade in American…
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Spinning on Margins: An Analysis of Passing as Communicative Phenomenon Queen: a journal of rhetoric and power Special Issue: Rehtorics of identity: Place, Race, Sex and the Person (January 2005) From the conference held from 2005-01-20 through 2005-01-22 at the University of Redlands 21 pages Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Acts of black-to-white…
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From The Birth of a Nation to Havoc: The Evolution of Traditional Blackface to Modern Racial Passing in U.S. Cinema Pennsylvania State University August 2009 122 pages Dorian Randall A Thesis in Media Studies by Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts Race is a complicated and debatable term…
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Off white The Indian Express New Delhi, India 2012-05-19 Census data confirms America’s enduring ability to bring the world home The United States has crossed a demographic tipping point, driven by changes in immigration, fertility and mortality patterns. By now, more than half the babies born in the US belong to a racial or ethnic…
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Rodney King juror: ‘My father was black’ Ventura County Star Camarillo, California 2012-04-28 Gretchen Wenner, Staff Reporter SQUAW VALLEY — Juror No. 8 from the Rodney King beating trial has always heard the 12-member panel described as either all white or as having no blacks. Now, he wants the public to know that’s not…
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‘Beautiful Hybrids’: Caroline Gurrey’s Photographs of Hawai‘i’s Mixed-race Children History of Photography Volume 36, Issue 2 (May 2012) pages 184-198 DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2012.654947 Anne Maxwell, Associate Professor of English University of Melbourne, Australia In the early years of the twentieth century the Hawaiian-based American photographer Caroline Gurrey produced a much praised set of the photographs of…
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Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel University of Illinois Press 2001 208 pages 6 x 9 in. Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07248-2 M. Giulia Fabi, Associate professor of American literature University of Ferrara, Italy Revealing the role of light-skinned black characters passing for white in African American literature A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2003…
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Contemporary US multiple heritage couples, individuals, and families: Issues, concerns, and counseling implications Counselling Psychology Quarterly Volume 25, Issue 2, (June 2012) Special Issue: Race, Culture, and Mental Health: Metissage, Mestizaje, Mixed “Race”, and Beyond pages 99-112 DOI: 10.1080/09515070.2012.674682 Mark Kenney, Adjunct Professor Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania Multicultural Education and Consulting, Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania Kelley…
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Rewriting a slave’s journey Trinidad and Tobago Newsday 2012-04-29 Corey Connelly In his latest publication, Caribbean History from Pre-Colonial Origins to the Present, Dr Tony Martin recaps the many social, economic and political phenomena that have shaped world history over the centuries. However, the renowned historian tackles the topics in an unapologetically fresh and detailed…