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: August 2013
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Often Misidentified, Multiracial People Value Accurate Perceptions American Psychological Association Press Releases 2013-08-02 Average American has trouble identifying multiracial people, research finds HONOLULU — Multiracial people may be misidentified more often as being white than black and may value being accurately identified more so than single-race individuals, according to research presented at APA’s 121st Annual…
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Breeding Unity: Battlestar Galactica’s Biracial Reproductive Futurity Camera Obscura Volume 27, Number 3 81 (2012) pages 1-37 DOI: 10.1215/02705346-1727446 Anne Kustritz, Assistant Professor in Television Studies University of Amsterdam While Battlestar Galactica reinvigorated the science fiction genre by representing contemporary political problems in a complex, often radical fashion, the series also makes visible a new articulation…
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Langston Hughes showed me what it meant to be a black writer The Guardian 2013-07-31 Gary Younge, Feature Writer and Columnist His 1926 essay, The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain made clear that a black writer must write the best work they can, while refusing to be defined by other people’s racial agendas One…
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When two proximate species of mankind, two races bearing a general resemblance to each other in type, are bred together—e.g.. Teutons, Celts, Pelasgians, Iberians, or Jews—they produce offspring perfectly prolific: although, even here, their, peculiarities cannot become so entirely fused into a homogeneous mass as to obliterate the original types of either. One or the…
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What Interracial and Gay Couples Know About ‘Passing’ The Atlantic 2013-07-31 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law University of Iowa As I awaited news of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in the same-sex marriage cases last month, I began to reflect on all of the daily privileges that I receive…
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Race and the Visual Arts: LAHS-P236 Berklee College of Music Boston, Massachusetts Fall 2013 In this course, students explore the representation of race in visual culture and the ways in which culture marks subjects, objects, and bodies with racial identity. Wherever we look we are confronted by images that are explicitly or implicitly racialized—in artistic…
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Study explores race differences of lung cancer risk Vanderbilt University Medical Center Reporter 2013-08-01 Mimi Eckhard Vanderbilt research scientist Melinda Aldrich, Ph.D., MPH, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health Academic Career Award to investigate some of the genetic secrets behind a greater risk of lung cancer among African-Americans compared with other racial and…
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Prove you’re Japanese: when being bicultural can be a burden The Japan Times 2013-07-29 Louise George Kittaka Parents’ decision to add a katakana name can create issues when kids enter the big wide world Japanese are Japanese and foreigners are foreigners, and never the twain shall meet? In many aspects of daily life in this…