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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Day: March 6, 2013
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Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937 New York University Press October 2011 228 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780814752555 Paper ISBN: 9780814752562 Julia H. Lee, Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies University of Texas, Austin 2013 Honorable Mention, Asian American Studies Association’s prize in Literary Studies Why do black characters…
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The Multiracial Category Movement originated in the 1980s when parents of biracial children began to challenge identification criteria on school data forms. By the 1990s, multiracial category advocates had shifted most of their energy to a campaign to secure the addition of a multiracial category on decennial census forms for the year 2000. Their efforts…