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: January 2013
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2013-01-17 Hi Steven, This note is a grateful note: just wanted to say thanks for collating such broad, broad data on such a contested subject. Mixed-race is a tough one, hey? It’s wonderful that you made a site which brought all those opinions, past and present, onto a page which I can scroll down and…
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Bridging 1990 and 2000 census race data: Fractional assignment of multiracial populations Population Research and Policy Review Volume 20, Issue 6 (December 2001) pages 513-533 DOI: 10.1023/A:1015666321798 James P. Allen, Emeritus Professor of Geography California State University, Northridge Eugene Turner, Professor of Geography California State University, Northridge In contrast to previous censuses, Census 2000 permitted…
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LTAM 140 – Topic in Culture and Politics: Being Brazilian: Race, Cannibalization and Animality in Brazilian Cultural Discourse University of California, San Diego Winter 2010 Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Luso-Brazilian Studies This course provides an introduction to Brazilian culture through essays, poetry, fiction, music and films that consider the meaning of…
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LTAM 110 (A00) – Latin American Literature in Translation: “Brazilian Humanimals: Species, Race and Gender in Brazilian Literature” University of California, San Diego Spring 2012 Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Luso-Brazilian Studies How do gender, race and species intersect in Brazilian literary representations? What is at stake in scrutinizing the ethical dimensions…
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White Negroes Guy Foster, Assistant Professor of English Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine Africana Studies/Gender and Women’s Studies Spring 2013 Close readings of literary and filmic texts that interrogate widespread beliefs in the fixity of racial categories and the broad assumptions these beliefs often engender. Investigates “whiteness” and “blackness” as unstable and fractured ideological constructs. These…
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Interracial Narratives Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine Africana Studies Fall 2012 Guy Foster, Assistant Professor of English Examines the stories that Americans have told about intimate relationships that cross the color line in twentieth- and twenty-first-century imaginative and theoretical texts. Considers how these stories have differed according to whether the participants are heterosexual or homosexual, men…
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Afro-Asian Encounters: Reading Comparative American Racial Experiences Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine Africana Studies/Asian Studies Spring 2013 Wendy Thompson Taiwo, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies Surveys a breadth of historical and contemporary encounters between African Americans and Asian Americans in the United States. Begins with the earliest waves of Asian immigration in the…
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Faces In Between Daniels Spectrum 585 Dundas Street East Toronto, Ontario Friday, 2013-02-01, 19:00-21:00 EST (Local Time) A 3MW Collective art Exhibit at Regent Park Arts and Cultural Centre during Black History Month exploring mixed race identity through painting and photography. Join us to celebrate our first show as a collective! Cash bar and amazing…
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Study Links Highly Segregated Counties and Lung Cancer Deaths in Blacks The New York Times 2013-01-16 Sabrina Tavernise African-Americans who live in highly segregated counties are considerably more likely to die from lung cancer than those in counties that are less segregated, a new study has found. The study was the first to look at…