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: August 2012
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The Species Problem: Nineteenth-Century Concepts of Racial Inferiority in the Origin of Man Controversy American Anthropologist Volume 72, Issue 6 (December 1970) pages 1319–1329 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1970.72.6.02a00060 John S. Haller, Jr., Emeritus Professor of History Southern Illinois University, Carbondale The species problem and its implications in the origin of man controversy had grown in importance in…
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Reconstructing Molly Welsh: Race, Memory and the Story of Benjamin Banneker’s Grandmother University of Massachusetts, Amherst September 2008 194 pages Sandra W. Perot Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS Department of History Molly Welsh, oral tradition captured…
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Hannah Gómez 2012-08-29 I am an MA and MS candidate at Simmons College in Boston preparing to present a paper on the formation and assertion of biracial identity in Young Adult literature. While I’ve amassed quite the list of novels, I’m sure I am missing some from smaller presses and urban and hi/lo imprints from…
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Hidden Hapa Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 2012-04-06 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University “Hey, what are you doing over there with the Hapa?” Kathy and I looked over and there were three of our Japanese American friends at another table smiling at us, one with a mischievous grin. Sandy had jokingly pointed out that I was a mixed blood…
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The son of an Irish American father and Japanese mother, Murphy-Shigematsu has devoted his life to understanding himself as a product of his diverse roots. Across twelve chapters, his reflections are interspersed among profiles of others of biracial and mixed ethnicity and accounts of their journeys to answer a seemingly simple question: Who am I?
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Eurasians: Celebrating Survival Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (2007) DOI: 10.1080/07256860601082988 pages 129-141 Christine Choo University of Western Australia The search for my Asian ancestors and my discoveries in archives, the crumbling pages, the eroding ink, the disappearance of the word, are a metaphor for the simultaneous emergence of the will to…
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A Further Discussion of the Variability of Family Strains in the Negro-White Population of New York City Journal of the American Statistical Association Volume 20, Issue 151 (1925) pages 380-389 DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1925.10503502 Melville J. Herskovits A paper read at the meeting of Section H., American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Washington , D.C.,…