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: April 2013
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Hamilton school board asks aboriginal families to “self identify” CBC News Hamilton 2013-04-19 Taylor Ablett The Hamilton Wentworth District School Board is asking aboriginal families to “self identify” as First Nations, Métis, or Inuit. “We are encouraging families to self-identify because it will enable us to determine programming and supports to increase First Nation, Métis…
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Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity Beacon Press 2001 232 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-080705011-8 Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut Selected as One of the Village Voice’s Favorite 25 Books of 2001 In this…
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Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 (review) [Sheffer] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 37, Number 4, Winter 2012 DOI: 10.1353/mel.2012.0061 pages 203-205 Jolie A. Sheffer, Associate Professor, English and American Culture Studies Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Julia H. Lee’s Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and…
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“Citizen Sure Thing” or “Jus’ Foreigner”?: Half-Caste Citizenship and the Family Romance in Onoto Watanna’s Orientalist Fiction Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 13, Number 1, February 2010 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.0.0067 pages 81-105 Jolie A. Sheffer, Associate Professor, English and American Culture Studies Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio In “a contract” (1902), one of Winnifred…
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Racial Crossings: Race, intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire by Damon Ieremia Salesa (review) Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 14, Number 1, Spring 2013 DOI: 10.1353/cch.2013.0015 Sarah Carter, Professor of History University of Alberta Damon Ieremia Salesa, Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)…
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Imperial Relations: Histories of family in the British Empire Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 14, Number 1, Spring 2013 DOI: 10.1353/cch.2013.0006 Esme Cleall, Lecturer in the History University of Sheffield Laura Ishiguro, Professor of History University of British Columbia Emily J. Manktelow King’s College London In early 1860, Mary Moody gave birth to…
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Exclusive: Sonia Rolland talks activism, new film Euromight: Your Guide to Afro-Europe 2013-04-15 Epée Hervé Dingong Sonia Rolland, (Miss France 2000), is an actress and model who has been outspoken about racial issues in the film and fashion industries, and in the media. In this exclusive interview she talks about her work, politics and what…
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Oona King: My family values The Guardian 2013-04-19 Roz Lewis The Labour peer talks about her parents, growing up as the only mixed-race child in her class, and being an adoptive parent I was born in Sheffield. My father, Preston King, is African American; my mother, Hazel, is a Jewish Geordie. I have a brother,…