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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An Exploration of Healthy Adjustment in Biracial Young Adults Univesity of California, Davis 2008 175 pages Tamu Corrine Nolfo A DISSERTATION Submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Human Development Given the historically negative views of interracial marriages and mixed race children proliferating the popular American social…
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Growing Up Biracial in a Southern Elementary School Georgia Southern University May 2009 139 pages Julie Kight A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION This dissertation explored the relationship between racial identity of biracial children (defined as fifty percent…
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Uncertainty and evolution: Contributions to identity development for female college students who identify as multiracial/biracial-bisexual/pansexual Iowa State University 2008 322 pages Publication Number: AAT 3310805 ISBN: 9780549596066 Alissa Renee King A dissertation submitted to the graduate faculty partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In this study, I explored how female…
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Time to drop racial categories in census The Chicago Tribune 2012-08-16 Arthur Caplan, Director of Division of Medical Ethics Department of Population Health New York University The U.S. Census Bureau announced that it wants to make a number of changes in how it counts membership in a race. The change is based on an experiment…
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Reading The Human Stain through Charles W. Chesnutt: The Genre of the Passing Novel Philip Roth Studies Volume 2, Number 2 (Fall 2006) pages 138-150 DOI: 10.1353/prs.2011.0066 Matthew Wilson, Professor of English and Humanities Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg This article historicizes The Human Stain, placing it in the genre of the passing novel. The analysis…
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Race Poem via Poetry Foundation from: Antebellum Dream Book Graywolf Press 2001 72 pages Paperback ISBN: 1-55597-354-X Elizabeth Alexander, President The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York, New York Sometimes I think about Great-Uncle Paul who left Tuskegee, Alabama to become a forester in Oregon and in so doing became fundamentally white for the rest…
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Susan Graham Discusses Project RACE Mixed Race Radio 2012-08-15, 17:00Z (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Susan Graham, Executive Director Project RACE Project RACE (Reclassify All Children Equally) members are the national advocates for multiracial children, teens, adults, and our families. Project RACE was started in 1990, so we are in our 22nd…
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Hopes Spring Eternal: ‘Three Strong Women,’ by Marie NDiaye The New York Times 2012-08-10 Fernanda Eberstadt Americans have a curiously limited vision of France. We may be wild about Chanel sunglasses, Vuitton handbags, Champagne or Paris in the spring, but when it comes to the kinds of contemporary French culture that can’t be bought in…
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A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category written in our genes.