Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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: September 2013
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In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation and its aftermath, Carlyle Van Thompson illumines the racialized sexual desire that reduces Black people to commodities for consumption. “Eating the Black Body” examines the often-sadistic forms of sexual violence during the period of slavery and its aftermath.
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“Makin a way Outta no way:” The dangerous business of racial masquerade in Nella Larsen’s Passing Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 15, Issue 1 (2005) pages 79-104 DOI: 10.1080/07407700508571489 Carlyle Van Thompson, Acting Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Education Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York Early in…
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Art Review: In the New World, Trappings of a New Social Order The New York Times 2013-09-19 Karen Rosenberg ‘Behind Closed Doors’ Regards Spanish Colonial Art “Behind Closed Doors: Art in the Spanish American Home, 1492-1898,” at the Brooklyn Museum, leaves us in the strange position of marveling at the opulence of domestic life in…
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Northwestern sophomores form group for mixed race students The Daily Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 2013-09-26 Julian Gerez (@JGerez_news), Reporter One year ago, Medill sophomore Kalina Silverman, a half-Chinese, half-White, Jewish student browsed through the bustling activities fair. Amid the numerous student cultural groups, Silverman couldn’t find a home. “I went to a couple events hosted by…
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Government forms limit mixed race people Daily Trojan University of Southern California 2013-09-26 Ida Abhari According to The New York Times, the current generation of college students is the largest group of mixed race people in America so far. The number of individuals who identified as mixed race is at 9 million. Increasingly more Americans…
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Discrimination Down to a Science Hyphen Magazine Issue 26, Spring 2013 (The South) Dharushana Muthulingam, Health Editor and a resident physician at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland How genetic data shapes science and medicine and what is being done to change it. In the 1997 science fiction movie Gattaca, set in a future of genetically engineered…
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Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 University Press of Mississippi 2005 224 pages bibliography, index Cloth ISBN: 9781578067053 Paper ISBN: 9781604732474 Alex Lubin, Associate Professor of American Studies University of New Mexico Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 studies the meaning of interracial romance, love, and sex in the…
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Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science University of Minnesota Press September 2013 256 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6586-0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6585-3 Kim TallBear, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin Who is a Native American? And who gets to decide? From genealogists searching online…
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Behind the Curtain | Race is common theme in local exhibits City Living Seattle 2013-09-19 Jessica Davis, Columnist According to the 2000 Census, Washington state ranks ninth in the country for interracial marriages. Overall, people of color make up more than 34 percent of Seattle residents. “RACE: Are We So Different?” at the Pacific Science…