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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Artists explore the image of mixed race Asian-Americans in DePaul exhibit Medill Reports, Chicago 2013-04-18 Zhiyu Wang Medill Reports is written and produced by graduate journalism students at Northwestern University’s Medill school. In college, Wei Ming Dariotis used to want a T-shirt with “war baby” on the front and “love child” on the back. That…
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Results from the 2010 Census Race and Hispanic Origin Alternative Questionnaire Experiment U.S. Census Bureau Technical Briefing 2012-08-08 62 pages What is the AQE? The 2010 Census Race and Hispanic Origin Alternative Questionnaire Experiment (AQE) focused on improving the race and Hispanic origin questions by testing a number of different questionnaire design strategies… Overview of…
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Author takes on modern myths about race Skokie Review Chicago, Illinois 2013-04-05 Mike Isaacs he 8-year-old girl who had difficulty breathing had been misdiagnosed for a long time, but then a technician looked at her X-ray and asked incredulously why she had not been treated for cystic fibrosis. The reason was because she was black,…
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The operationalization of race and ethnicity concepts in medical classification systems: issues of validity and utility Health Informatics Journal Volume 11, Number 4 (December 2005) pages 259-274 DOI: 10.1177/1460458205055688 Peter J. Aspinall, Emeritus Reader in Population Health University of Kent, UK This article looks at the operationalization of race and ethnicity concepts in medical classification…
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Miscegenation in America started not in the thirteen original colonies but in Africa. English, French, Dutch and American slavetraders took black concubines on the Guinea coast and mated with females on the slave ships. It should be noted that many Africans and Europeans were themselves the products of thousands of years of mixing between various…
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Opening 4/25: “War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art” DePaul Art Museum Chicago, Illinois 2013-04-16 CHICAGO — The DePaul Art Museum explores the construction of mixed-heritage Asian American identity in the United States with “War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art,” which opens April 25. “It gives visibility to the increasingly…
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo Random House 2012-09-18 432 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-38246-7 Tom Reiss Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo—a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who inspired such classics as The Count…