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: November 2012
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Consolidated Colors: Racial Passing and Figurations of the Chinese in Walter White’s Flight and Darryl Zanuck’s Old San Francisco MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 37, Number 4, Winter 2012 pages 93-117 DOI: 10.1353/mel.2012.0064 Amanda M. Page, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania Narratives of racial passing frequently investigate how the…
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“Family Portrait in Black and White” Arrives on DVD Interfilm Productions 2012-11-29 Julia Ivanova, Director Family Portrait in Black and White – Award Winning Documentary on Super-Foster Mom and her 16 Bi-racial Children Arrives on DVD December 4, 2012 On the heels of National Adoption Month comes a documentary that explores the growing pains of…
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Appointment of a new Parliamentary Poet Laureate Parliament of Canada 2011-12-20 December 20, 2011 (Ottawa) – The Speaker of the Senate, the Honourable Noël A. Kinsella, and the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Honourable Andrew Scheer, today announced the appointment of Fred Wah as Canada’s next Parliamentary Poet Laureate [2011-2013], effective immediately. Mr.…
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The False Laws of Narrative: The Poetry of Fred Wah Wilfrid Laurier University Press October 2009 102 pages Paper ISBN13: 978-1-55458-046-0 Fred Wah, Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate Edited by: Louis Cabri, Associate Professor of English University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada The False Laws of Narrative is a selection of Fred Wah’s poems covering the…
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“I don’t believe in this miscegenation business. Though all human beings are really one, various social constructs were invented to perpetuate European supremacy.” —Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas Lamont Lilly, “Afro-Latin And The Negro Common: An Interview With Dr. Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas,” Racialicious, September 5, 2012. http://www.racialicious.com/2012/09/05/afro-latin-and-the-negro-common-an-interview-with-dr-marco-polo-hernandez-cuevas/.
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Dorothy E. Roberts: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race [Vanderbilt University Lecture] Vanderbilt News Vanderbilt University 2012-10-30 Watch video of Dorothy E. Roberts—recently named Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania—presenting “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race” based on her latest book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create…
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Afro-Latin And The Negro Common: An Interview With Dr. Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas Racialicious 2012-09-05 Lamont Lilly Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas is the Interim Chair of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at North Carolina Central University, where his interests lie in Transatlantic and Diaspora Studies. He is the author of five books, including The Africanization of…