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: March 2013
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Through in-depth comparative analysis of interviews, we identified three major stressors impacting the identity development of the mixed Mexican participants: monoracism, cultural distance, and pressure to authenticate one’s ethnic or racial membership. These challenges precipitated feelings of confusion, isolation, and exclusion. Participants described negative experiences embedded in monoracism or discrimination and pressure from peers as…
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The use of popular media in multicultural education: Stressing implications for the Black/non-Black biracial North American student Syracuse University 1999 206 pages Wendy Cecille Thompson Instructor usage of popular media in the classroom has spawned studies on the impact of the visual image on minority populations. These studies range from examining the effects of films…
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Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation by Malinda Maynor Lowery (review) Journal of American Folklore Volume 126, Number 499, Winter 2013 pages 95-96 DOI: 10.1353/jaf.2013.0006 David Steven Cohen This book from the University of North Carolina Press raises important questions about which groups are and are…
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Understanding Who Reported Multiple Races in the U.S. Decennial Census: Results From Census 2000 and the 2010 Census Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies Volume 62, Issue 1 (February 2013) (Special Issue on Multiethnic Families) pages 5-16 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00759.x Nicholas A. Jones, Chief, Racial Statistics Branch Population Division United States Census Bureau Jungmiwha…
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Shifting Boundaries of Race and Ethnicity: Indian-Black Intermarriage in Southern New England, 1760-1880 The Journal of American History Volume 85, Number 2 (September, 1998) pages 466-501 Daniel R. Mandell, Professor of History Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri In the century following the American Revolution, Indians in southern New England struggled to survive as communities, families,…