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: January 2014
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The life story of a man who crossed the color line to fight for civil rights
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Flight: A Novel Louisiana State University Press April 1998 (Originally published in 1926) 304 pages 5.50 x 8.50 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780807122808 Walter White (1893-1955) Published amid controversy in 1926, Flight focuses on the dilemma of Mimi Daquin, a light-complexioned African American woman who passes, for a time, as white. In the New Orleans of…
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The Trouble with Transcendence: Is Defying the Gender Binary the New Racial Passing? Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2014-01-21 Mallory Nicole Davis University of Oregon In 2010, Thomas Araguz III, a Texas firefighter died on the job, leaving behind his two children and transgender wife, Nikki.[1] The couple was legally married because although…
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Cousins, Across the Color Line The New York Times 2014-01-22 Tess Taylor EL CERRITO, Calif. — I learned about her through the comments section of an article in Publisher’s Weekly. I had recently published a book of poems crafted out of family stories, and it had been written up, along with a brief interview. In…
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The racial identity of the offspring of Latino intermarriage: A case of racial identity and census categories Fordham University, Bronx, New York May 2013 241 pages Michael Hajime Miyawaki Since 1970, rates of Latino intermarriage and the number of “part-Latinos” have been on the rise in the United States. Among newlyweds, Latino/non-Latino couples account for…
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Racial Malleability and Authenticity in Multiracial Well-Being University of Miami 134 pages May 2014 Lauren E. Smith A DISSERTATION Submitted to the Faculty of the University of Miami in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy After relatively stable rates of interracial marriage, the numbers of unions across race markedly…