Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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: January 2013
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Eric Garcetti invokes Latino-Jewish ancestry in mayor’s race The Los Angeles Times 2013-01-02 Michael Finnegan Working a recent breakfast gathering of business owners in Northridge, Los Angeles mayoral contender Eric Garcetti introduced himself in Hindi when a Sikh businessman approached. A few hours later, Garcetti donned a colorful Peruvian headpiece with ear flaps as he…
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In a 1943 letter to local registrars, clerks, and legislators, Plecker asserted, “[T]here does not exist today a descendant of Virginia ancestors claiming to be an Indian who is unmixed with negro blood.”
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Denying Brazil (Review) African Film Festival: More than just a festival Essays & Articles 2002 John D. H. Downing, Professor Emeritus of International Communication Southern Illinois University The documentary, Denying Brazil, is a plain-speaking and fascinating unmasking of the white racism endemic in Brazilian television’s most popular genre, which in the USA we would call…
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A Rising Hockey Star With N.B.A. DNA The New York Times 2012-12-20 Jeff Z. Klein Seth Jones probably should have wound up a basketball player. He is tall, with a great vertical leap, and his father is Popeye Jones, who played 11 years in the N.B.A. and is now an assistant coach with the Nets.…
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Cogewea, The Half Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range University of Nebraska Press 1981 (originally published in 1927) 302 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8110-3 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8032-3069-9 Mourning Dove (Humishuma) (1888-1936) Introduction by Dexter Fisher (Cirillo) One of the first known novels by a Native American woman, Cogewea (1927) is the story of…
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Changing Families Sh’ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas December 2007 Caryn Aviv, Senior Instructor in Secular Jewish Society & Civilization University of Colorado, Boulder A Different Sexual Revolution The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism, by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Indiana University Press, 2007. 320 pages The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives,…
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The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives SUNY Press October 2006 244 pages Hardback ISBN10: 0-7914-6893-3; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6893-7 Paperback ISBN10: 0-7914-6894-1; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6894-4 eBook ISBN10: 0-7914-8106-9; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-8106-6 Marla Brettschneider, Professor of Political Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Political Science & Women’s Studies University of New Hampshire Winner of a Bronze Medal in the Gay/Lesbian…