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: September 23, 2013
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Creole Culture: Identity and Race in the Bayou Country Kreol Magazine October-December 2013, Issue 7 pages 42-45 Christophe Landry Louisiana is what many have come to refer to as the northern-most point of Latin America, where créolité, a Latin-based people, culture and consciousness, emerged early in the 1700s. From its earliest stages, the international melting…
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‘Making a Non-White America’ inside: CSUF News California State University, Fullerton 2009-08-18 Mimi Ko Cruz Allison Varzally’s Book About California’s Ethnic History Wins National Award Interracial marriages and other ties in diverse communities throughout California during the formative years of the 20th century are explored in Allison Varzally’s book, “Making a Non-White America: Californians Coloring…
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“I always joked with my friends that I was ‘light’ not ‘white.’ Half Latino and half white. Just what does that mean? When the name Bengochea precedes me, I am always asked to explain. You don’t necessarily guess my Cuban roots by looking at me, but maybe you should look harder. As a person of…
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Sugar Pie DeSanto: After 50 Years, ‘Go Going’ Strong Fresh Air from WHYY [Philadelphia] National Public Radio 2010-07-29 Terry Gross, Host Ed Ward, Rock Music Commentator Ace Records Sugar Pie DeSanto was born in Brooklyn in October 1935, and was christened Umpeleya Marsema Balinton. Her father was Filipino, her mother African-American. Her mother had been…
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Cane River: A Novel Grand Central Publishing 2001 560 pages 5-1/4″ x 8″ Paperback ISBN-13: 9780446678452 Lalita Tademy The “New York Times” bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club Pick—the unique and deeply moving epic of four generations of African-American women based on one family’s ancestral past.
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Making a Non-White America: Californians Coloring outside Ethnic Lines, 1925-1955 University of California Press April 2008 318 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520253452 E-Book ISBN: 9780520941274 Allison Varzally, Associate Professor of History California State University, Fullerton On the cover: Future R&B singer Sugar Pie DeSanto in San Francisco’s Fillmore District (circa 1940s) Winner of the 2009 Theodore…
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Visualizing Race, Identity, and Change Proof National Geographic 2013-09-17 Michele Norris, Guest Contributor Proof is National Geographic’s new online photography experience. It was launched to engage ongoing conversations about photography, art, and journalism. In addition to featuring selections from the magazine and other publications, books, and galleries, this site will offer new avenues for our…