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: February 2013
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Japanese Officer Slain San Francisco Call Volume 113, Number 107 1913-03-17 page 3, column 4 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Los Angeles Half-caste Policeman Is Murdered in “Little Tokyo” LOS ANGELES, March 16.—Tom Fushiyama White, a half-caste Japanese, who had been connected with the Los Angeles police force for half a dozen years, was found…
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Integrating both Māori myth and New Zealand reality, The Bone People became the most successful novel in New Zealand publishing history when it appeared in 1984. Set on the South Island beaches of New Zealand, a harsh environment, the novel chronicles the complicated relationships between three emotional outcasts of mixed European and Māori heritage.
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My journey has taken me past constructions of race, past constructions of mixed race, and into an understanding of human difference that does not include race as a meaningful category. Rainier Spencer, “Race and Mixed Race: A Personal Tour,” in As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity, edited by William S. Penn,…
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The story of the Hay children in Dornoch, however, was not at all unique at the turn of the nineteenth century. Rather, the Hays were members of a regular migration of mixed-race West Indians who arrived in the home country during the period.
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…I don’t believe multi-racial makes sense by my understanding of race. Race is socially constructed and “multi-racial” seems to assume that race is biological: if parents are of different then the kid is “mixed”. But that is not how race works. Race is constructed through law, history, culture, practice, custom, etc. “Black” does not…
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Despite its various meanings, it always had a sexual connotation to it. On one hand it was a coded term for objectifying and fantasizing what such woman sexually offered that might be different from other women.
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The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White University of Iowa Press April 2013 144 pages 5 ¾ x 9 ¼ Paper ISBN: 1-60938-160-2; 978-1-60938-160-8 Aisha Sabatini Sloan In these intertwined essays on art, music, and identity, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, the daughter of African American and Italian American parents,…
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In “Spectacular Wickedness,” Emily Epstein Landau examines the social history of this famed district within the cultural context of developing racial, sexual, and gender ideologies and practices.
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He [John C. Minkins] said the Negro need have no objection to absolutely prohibitive laws against miscegenation, as they would give him a far wider range of matrimonial choice than any other race on earth, since he could have all the thirty-second degree Negroes and more than 1,100,000 others, ranging from half white to thirty-one…