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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Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking (review) Journal of World History Volume 23, Number 3, September 2012 pages 676-680 DOI: 10.1353/jwh.2012.0064 Magnus Fiskesjö, Associate Professor of Anthropology Cornell University Michael Keevak has given us a wonderful, even riveting, deep-historical account of how people in Asia (particularly East Asia) came to be seen as…
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Mixed-race teens talk about identity The Mash: For teens, by teens 2012-11-15 Kaylah Sosa Homewood-Flossmoor High School, Flossmoor, Illinois Chris Pieper Whitney Young Magnet High School, Chicago, Illinois Megan Fu Buffalo Grove, Buffalo Grove, Illinois Rosemary Anguiano Whitney Young Magnet High School, Chicago, Illinois The Mash is a weekly newspaper and Web site that is…
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A few questions from CMRS 2012 Two or More: Mixed thoughts about the Census NAC 2012-11-18 Eric Hamako Eric Hamako is one of 32 members of the United States Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee (NAC) on Race, Ethnic, and Other Populations, 2012-2014. This blog is intended to 1) share updates and Eric’s perspectives on the…
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College applications force mixed-race teens to color outside the lines The Mash: For teens, by teens 2012-11-15 Steffie Drucker Niles North High School, Skokie, Illinois Josh Kalamotousakis John F. Kennedy High School, Chicago, Illinois The Mash is a weekly newspaper and Web site that is here to serve you, the Chicago-area teenager. The paper is…
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Coping with the crickets: a fusion autoethnography of silence, schooling, and the continuum of biracial identity formation International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Published online: 2012-11-07 DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2012.731537 Lynnette Mawhinney, Assistant Professor of Elementary/Early Childhood Education The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey Emery Marc Petchauer, Assistant Professor of Teacher Development & Educational…
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This study systematically analyzed novels of contemporary and historical fiction with mixed race content intended for readers age 9-14. In the context of an increasingly multiracial and multicultural society, this study was primarily concerned with the question of identity representation: What is contemporary children’s literature saying about the experience of being racially mixed? This question…