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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When no one else looks like you Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-12-15 (CNN) – “Who is Black in America?” explores how color affects identity. In this video, Danielle Ayers, a biracial woman, discusses her search for identity and the challenges of being color blind after growing up…
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How Personalized Medicine Became Genetic, and Racial: Werner Kalow and the Formations of Pharmacogenetics Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Volume 68, Number 1, January 2013 pages 1-48 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrr046 David S. Jones, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine Harvard University Physicians have long puzzled over a well-known phenomenon:…
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Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law (Davis review) Journal of the History of Sexuality Volume 22, Number 1, January 2013 pages 163-165 DOI: 10.1353/sex.2013.0012 Rebecca L. Davis, Associate Professor of History University of Delaware Campaigns to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples have inspired activists, journalists, scholars, and others to…
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The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatán Stanford University Press 2009 456 pages 39 tables, 4 figures, 13 illustrations, 11 maps. Cloth ISBN: 9780804749831 Matthew Restall, Professor of Latin American History and Director of Latin American Studies Pennsylvania State University The Black Middle is the first full-length study of black African slaves and…
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Jackie Kay @ 5×15 5×15 2012-10-16 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Five speakers, fifteen minutes each. True stories of passion, obsession and adventure recounted live with just two rules: no scripts and only fifteen minutes each. The Red Dust Road Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh in…
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Black Mom + Indian Dad = Search for Identity Ebony Magazine 2012-12-17 Sharda Sekaran Sharda Sekaran can’t deny her East Indian roots, but she can’t find them either It was my senior year of college. I sat at the end of a long oval table in a meeting room in one of the academic buildings.…
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An Eagle Eye in Harlem narratively: Local. Original. Organic. In-Depth. 2012-12-10 Jenni Monet From Malcolm X Boulevard to pow-wow road trips, a black man from Georgia adopts a Cherokee persona despite questionable ties to any Native American roots. Robert Banks’ one-bedroom flat is lavishly decorated with Native American artwork—sculptures and dreamcatchers that the 71-year-old Georgia…
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To talk about contemporary identity also involves talking about the history of race in this country.
I believe that identity is two-fold—how we view ourselves and how others view us. And these views are informed by the racialized and sexualized violence of our past. To talk about contemporary identity also involves talking about the history of race in this country. There is a reason that Obama identifies as black not biracial,…
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ANTH 206 American Indian Societies (FOLK 230) University of North Carolina Summer 2013 Why do American Indians have casinos and reservations? Who is an Indian? How do Indians feel about American history? What kinds of futures do young Indians imagine for themselves and their tribes, and how can a non-Indian participate in and contribute to…
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Jackie Kay: a poetic imagining of post-racial (be)longing darkmatter: in the ruins of imperial culture ISSN: 2041-3254 Post-Racial Imaginaries [9.2] (2012-11-29) Katy Massey Jackie Kay is a prolific and well-loved writer who, though she has written in many forms, is best-known for her poetry. A mixed-race Scot who lives in the north of England, her…