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: December 2012
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Review: Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego Southern California Quarterly Volume 94, Number 4 (Winter 2012) pages 492-494 DOI: 10.1525/scq.2012.94.4.492 Alex Jacoby Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in Sun Diego. By Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. (New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2012. 256 pp.) In the last decade there…
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In their quest for greater political participation within shifting imperial fields—from Spanish (1850s–1898) to US rule (1898-)—Puerto Ricans struggled to shape and contain conversations about race. In so doing, they crafted, negotiated, and imposed on others multiple forms of silences while reproducing the idea of a unified, racially mixed, harmonious nation.
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Where Ethnicity Was Fluid The New York Times 2012-12-29 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent In “Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America” (Harvard University Press, $35), Vivek Bald, who teaches writing and digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has produced an engaging account of a largely untold wave of immigration:…
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Political Attitudes and Ideologies of Multiracial Americans: The Implications of Mixed Race in the United States Political Research Quarterly Volume 61, Number 2 (2008) pp. 253-267 DOI: 10.1177/1065912907313209 Natalie Masuoka, Assistant Professor of Political Science Tufts University A contemporary rise in multiracial self-identification provokes a number of questions about the significance that this racial identity…
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On This Day: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement University of North Carolina 2012-12-05 Alison Shay On December 5, 1925—87 years ago today—the jury in the annulment trial Rhinelander v. Rhinelander found in favor of a mixed-race woman sued for marriage annulment by her white husband. Leonard Kip Rhinelander, a wealthy white…