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: September 2012
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In this new symphonic collection, “Travel Light Travel Dark,” Agard casts his unique spin on the intermingling strands of British history, and leads us into metaphysical and political waters.
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Poetry: Three Treasures by Hannah Lowe Freeword: a global meeting place for literature, argument and free thinking 2012-06-12 Hannah Lowe A panelist at ‘2 Nations’, our recent event exploring national identity, Hannah Lowe is a poet of Chinese, Jamaican and English heritage. In this poem she performed for the audience that night, she explores how…
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The writer of “Miscegenation” considers it a most providential event, and as one significant of the type-man or miscegens of the future, that the statue on the dome of the Capitol at Washington is of a “bronze tint.” But it is possible that he mistakes its significance. As has been shown in these pages, the…
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The present writer proposes to profit by the suggestion of the author of of “Miscegenation” and coin another word, long needed. It is subgenation, from sub, lower, and generatus and genus, a race born or created lower than another; i.e., the natural or normal relation of an inferior to a superior race.
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Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity: Celtic Soul Brothers Routledge 2012-07-11 234 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-65367-1 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-80189-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-203-85989-6 Lauren Onkey, Vice President of Education and Public Programs Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Cleveland, Ohio Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between…
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The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences Routledge 2010-06-23 248 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-65278-0 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-88125-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-203-84498-4 Edward Beasley, Associate Professor of History San Diego State University In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The ‘races’ familiar to…
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In the United States miscegenation is not merely a subject of literature and popular culture. It is in many ways the foundation of contemporary imaginary community. “The Romance of Race” examines the role of minority women writers and reformers in the creation of our modern American multiculturalism.