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: December 2013
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United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) describes her mode as elegiac. Although the loss of her murdered mother informs each book, Trethewey’s range of forms and subjects is wide.
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Louisiana Creole Literature: A Historical Study University Press of Mississippi 2013-10-17 256 pages 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index Hardback ISBN: 9781617039102 Catharine Savage Brosman, Professor Emerita of French Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Louisiana Creole Literature is a broad-ranging critical reading of belles lettres—in both French and English—connected to and generally produced by the…
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The symbolics of blood: Mestizaje in the Americas Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Volume 3, Issue 4, 1997 (Special Issue: Race and Place) pages 495-521 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1997.9962576 Carol A. Smith, Professor Emerita of Anthropology University of California, Davis Mestizaje, a significant process of identity formation in Latin America based on presumed race mixture,…
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Over the past fifteen years in the United States, there has emerged a concerted push to reclassify people with one Black and one white parent as biracial. Advocates of this biracial project seek to have people of mixed parentage (PMP) recognized as a distinct, biracial race. They maintain that a biracial identity is more mentally…
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American Sons & Daughters: Mixed Race, Identity in Southern California KCET Television Burbank, California 2013-12-04 Susan Straight, Professor of Creative Writing University of California, Riverside This is how we began. I looked out at the 300 faces before me and said, “How many of you in this classroom are often asked, in a bar or…
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‘Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature’: A Reading Denison University A. Blair Knapp Hall Room 201 300 Ridge Road Granville, Ohio 43023 Thursday, 2013-12-05, 16:30 EST (Local Time) The Women’s Studies Program welcomes Diana Mafe. The Women’s Studies Program welcomes Diana Mafe reading from her new book, Mixed Race Stereotypes in South…
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Uncovering records that link the slaveholder and enslaved Examiner.com 2013-12-02 Robin Foster In “Untangling the slaveholder and enslaved relationships,” several questions were raised about a possible link between Anderson Chick and Pettus Chick after it was discovered that Anderson and his mother, Eliza, lived next door to the Chick family for decades. If you are…
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Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bun and the City’s Transformative Potential Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers Volume 30, Number 2, 2013 pages 265-286 DOI: 10.1353/leg.2013.0031 Catherine Rottenberg, Assistant Professor Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and the Gender Studies Program Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel We are mainly indebted to writers of fiction for our more…