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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Evoking the Mulatto: Exploring Black Mixed Identity in the 21st Century 2012 Lindsay C. Harris, Creator, Director, Artist & Lead Curator Tida Tippapart, Producer and Co-Curator Chelsea Rae Klein, Web Designer and Co-Curator Evoking the Mulatto is a multiplatform narrative and visual art project examining black mixed identity in the 21st century, through the lens…
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Reflections on Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Brooklyn Historical Society November 2012 Rita Kamani-Renedo Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend the second biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul University in Chicago. I was excited to return after having attended the inaugural conference in 2010. This time,…
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Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah and Identity Language in the British Press: A Case Study in Monitoring and Analysing Print Media Migration Observatory University of Oxford 2012-12-11 10 pages William Allen, Senior Researcher Scott Blinder, Senior Researcher Introduction and context Since July 2012, the Migration Observatory has been building the framework for a Media Monitoring Project.…
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Soledad O’Brien Is Betting on Jeff Zucker The New York Times Magazine 2012-12-18 Andrew Goldman Your memoir made your experience growing up in Smithtown, a largely white town on Long Island, sound like a huge drag. It really wasn’t. It is truly not fun to be the family that sticks out in an all-white community.…
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Latinas and Latinos of Mixed Ancestry first interest survey Latinas and Latinos of Mixed Ancestry (LOMA) 2012-12-17 Welcome to LOMA’s first interest survey. Your responses will help us learn more about you, the community we serve, and what we should be doing! For more information, click here. LOMA is a program of Multiracial Americans of…
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Passing for Black in Seventeenth-Century Maryland Chapter in: Interpreting the Early Modern World: Transatlantic Perspectives Springer 2011 246 pages eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-70759-4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-70758-7 Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2709-4 Edited by: Mary C. Beaudry and James Symonds Chapter Authors: Julia A. King, Associate Professor of Anthropology St. Mary’s College of Maryland Edward E. Chaney In the…
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Although mixed marriages, and mixed racial identities, are also rising rapidly in the United States, they are still infrequent by British standards: around 10% of African Americans are in mixed marriages, compared to “over 25%” for black Caribbean Britons and “over 40%” for British born black Caribbeans. Traditionally, American racial identity has been defined by…
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Leading academics say there are some signs that Britain is the real melting pot these days, with people from ethnic minorities far more likely to marry someone from the white majority than in the US, and Britons far more comfortable calling themselves mixed-race than they would be in the United States. Rachael Jolley, “The melting…