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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Dwanna L. Robertson: Indian Identity Still Controversial Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-08-21 Carol Berry If she’d planned to tackle some of the most contentious issues in Indian country, a Mvskoke (Creek) sociologist couldn’t have done a better job. Blood quantum, lineal descent, tribal membership, federal recognition, sovereignty—all came under the scrutiny of Dwanna L.…
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Disentangling “Race” and Indigenous Status: The Role of Ethnicity Queen’s Law Journal Volume 33, Issue 2 (Spring 2008) pages 487 Sébastien Grammond, Dean and Associate Professor of Law University of Ottawa The notion of “race” is a social construction, discredited today by scientists as factually unsound. Individuals cannot be organized into discrete groups of people based solely…
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John A. Macdonald wanted an ‘Aryan’ Canada The Ottawa Citizen 2012-08 Tim Stanley, Professor of History University of Ottawa In 1885, John A. Macdonald told the House of Commons that, if the Chinese were not excluded from Canada, “the Aryan character of the future of British America should be destroyed …” This was the precise…
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Race-Based Fantasy Realm: Essentialism in the World of Warcraft Games and Culture Volume 7, Number 1 (January 2012) pages 48-71 DOI: 10.1177/1555412012440308 Melissa J. Monson Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, Colorado This article explores issues of racial essentialism and ethnicity in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft (WoW). The fantasy world…
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Digital Elves as a Racial Other in Video Games: Acknowledgment and Avoidance Games and Culture Volume 7, Number 5 (September 2012) pages 375-396 DOI: 10.1177/1555412012454224 Nathaniel Poor Brooklyn, New York, USA Elves are a long-standing cultural trope in the West, where they have often represented the other and fears associated with otherness. Elves continue to…
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The multiracial idea has at least two versions. One is that multiracial people are of mixed blood or mixed genetic material. The other is that multiracial people are those with parents of different recognizable races. On examination, both of these positions present problems. The first is most blatantly tied to the racist science of the…