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: October 2013
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When Ethnic Ambiguity Becomes a Privilege SunDryed Affairs 2011-06-08 Wendell Hassan Marsh Taking a look at recent box office results, it is the ethnically ambiguous star and ambiguously ethnic films that appear to be making bank. Ambiguity reaches around and hugs the color line while supporting the weight of overlapping identities. It’s not a question…
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Racial Identity and the Shadow of Jim Crow in the Black Community (1)ne Drop Project 2013-10-07 Kimberly Bernita Ross Michigan State University My grandmother Bernice was born in New Orleans in 1918 to a Black mother and a White father at a time when interracial marriage was illegal. Her mother, Roseanna, a maid in a…
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Tell Me a Story: Genomics vs. Indigenous Origin Narratives GeneWatch Council for Responsible Genetics Volume 26, Number 4, Religion & Genetics (Aug-Oct 2013) pages 11-13 Kim TallBear, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin On April 13, 2005 the Indigenous Peoples’ Council on Biocolonialism issued a press release opposing the Genographic Project, which aimed…
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New recognition for first black U.S. doctor with medical degree American Medical News 2010-11-08 Kevin B. O’Reilly Dr. James McCune Smith’s descendants unveiled a new headstone in a ceremony to commemorate his achievements as a physician, essayist and abolitionist. The New York City burial site of the nation’s first black medical degree-holder received a new…
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Diverse Millennial Students in College: Implications for Faculty and Student Affairs ed. by Fred Bonner II, Aretha F. Marbley, and Mary F. Howard-Hamilton (review) The Review of Higher Education Volume 37, Number 1, Fall 2013 pages 122-124 DOI: 10.1353/rhe.2013.0074 John A. Mueller Scott E. Miller Bonner II, Fred A., Aretha F. Marbley, and Mary F.…
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Review: The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing The College Dropout: Book blog and occasional wisdom on paleo, making money, and life 2013-10-10 Charles Franklin The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing by Greg Carter My rating: 4 of 5 stars Pros: Historical…
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My racial composition and my position in the world are realities which I alone may determine… I do not expect to be told what I should consider myself to be. —Jean Toomer to his publisher Horace Liveright (September 5, 1923)
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Continuing this discussion of terminology, I prefer mixed race over multiracial, to distance myself from those who wanted to create a new category for racially mixed people. Coverage of the 2000 census gave the impression that all within the Multiracial Movement wanted this. In reality, most wanted some useful identifier of mixed heritage, and the…