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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Olsen: A multiracial, multiethnic future Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake City, Utah 2012-12-28 Erica Olsen Recent political analysis has focused on the decline of the white vote, and a corresponding rise in the number of minority voters. According to exit polls in November, President Barack Obama won the votes of about 93 percent of African…
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Census Bureau Rethinks The Best Way To Measure Race National Public Radio 2012-12-27 Corey Dade, National Correspondent, Digital News Possible revisions to how the decennial census asks questions about race and ethnicity have raised concerns among some groups that any changes could reduce their population count and thus weaken their electoral clout. The Census Bureau…
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Choice—especially around identity—is a fascinating subject in and of itself. How we choose to identify is intensely personal for many, and perhaps particularly perplexing for some Mixed-race identified people, as it inherently calls into question our notions of “race”. Having said that, I can only speak for myself, and I have chosen to identify as…
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Race, ideas, and ideals: A comparison of Franz Boas and Hans F.K. Günther History of European Ideas Volume 32, Issue 3, 2006 pages 313-332 DOI: 10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2006.05.001 Amos Morris-Reich, Director of the Bucerius Institute Department of Jewish History University of Haifa, Israel This article compares two radically opposed views concerning “race” in the first half of…
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Book Review: Exploring the Borderlands of Race, Nation, Sex and Gender Discover Nikkei: Japanese Migrants and Their Descendants 2012-12-26 Nancy Matsumoto Growing up in predominantly white Marin County, mixed-race yonsei Akemi Johnson hates her name and just wants to blend in. In college, though, her attitude changes. She studies race and ethnicity and travels to…
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Alden J. Blethen vs. Jack Johnson The Seattle Republican Seattle, Washington Volume XV, Number 43 1909-03-19 page 1, column 3 Source: United States Library of Congress: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers How perfectly natural for some folk to strain at a gnat and yet gulp down a camel; to see a pigeon on a barn,…
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Inter-Marriage of Whites and Negroes Less Common than Formerly—The Plan of Despotism a Failure—Progress of the Colored Race.
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Soledad O’Brien: A woman of many backgrounds Irish Voice 2009-07-22 Cahir O’Doherty, Arts Editor and Feature Writer Maria de la Soledad Teresa O’Brien’s name is like a bridge across cultures. In Spanish her full name means “The Blessed Virgin Mary of Solitude,” and when she first started working in the media many people quietly suggested…