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: October 2013
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Blow to multiple human species idea BBC News 2013-10-17 Melissa Hogenboom, Science Reporter The idea that there were several different human species walking the Earth two million years ago has been dealt a blow. Instead, scientists say early human fossils found in Africa and Eurasia may have been part of the same species. Writing in…
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An Essentially American Narrative The New York Times 2013-10-11 Nelson George A Discussion of Steve McQueen’s Film ‘12 Years a Slave’ Amid comic book epics, bromantic comedies and sequels of sequels, films about America’s tortured racial history have recently emerged as a surprisingly lucrative Hollywood staple. In the last two years, “The Help,” “Lincoln,””Django Unchained,””42”…
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Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea [new edition] Constable & Robinson 2006-11-16 288 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781845294977 Jane Robinson The ‘Greatest Black Briton in History’ triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. She became an independent ‘doctress’ combining the herbal remedies of her African ancestry with sound surgical…
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About 15% of all new marriages in the United States in 2010 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another, more than double the share in 1980 (6.7%). Among all newlyweds in 2010, 9% of whites, 17% of blacks, 26% of Hispanics and 28% of Asians married out. Looking at all…
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The Impact of Internet Publishing and Online Communications on Mixed-Race Discourses The Asian American Literary Review Special Issue on Mixed Race, Volume 4, Issue 2 (Fall 2013) Mixed Race is an Inbox: pages 127-136 Steven F. Riley, Creator MixedRaceStudies.org: Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience Glenn C. Robinson, Creator MixedAmericanLife.us: Mixed Culture | Mixed…
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Special Issue on Mixed Race [The Asian American Literary Review] The Asian American Literary Review 2013-08-06 AALR’s special issue on mixed race, coming in Fall 2013, is not simply a reexamination of race or a survey of mixed voices, important as both are. We envision our role as that of provocateur–inspiring new conversations and cross-pollinations,…
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Booker, Winning Rocky Senate Bid, Gets a Job to Fit His Profile The New York Times 2013-0-16 Kate Zernike Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark easily won New Jersey’s special Senate election on Wednesday, finally rising to an office that measures up to his national profile. He will arrive in Washington already one of the…