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: March 2014
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Empire, Race, and the Debate over the Indian Marriage Market in Elizabeth Hamilton’s Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Volume 26, Number 3, Spring 2014 pages 427-454 DOI: 10.1353/ecf.2014.0004 John C. Leffel, Assistant Professor of English State University of New York, Cortland In the late eighteenth century, East India Company stations were characterized as…
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Race Reporting Among Hispanics: 2010 United States Census Bureau Population Division Washington, D.C. 20233 Working Paper No.102 March 2014 Merarys Ríos Fabián Romero Roberto Ramírez Since the release of the 2010 Census Race and Hispanic Origin Alternative Questionnaire Experiment (AQE) report in August 2012, much has been written about the AQE results (Compton et al., 2012; Hill…
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Mixed Race Related Sessions at ACPA 2014 American College Personnel Association 2014 Annual Convenetion Indianapolis, Indiana 2014-03-30 through 2014-04-02 574: Coloring Outside the Lines: How to Advocate for Multiracial Students on the College Campus Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Tuesday, 2014-04-01, 10:30-11:30 CDT (Local Time) Location: Indiana Convention Center, 141 Program Presenter: Jessica Harris Indiana…
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Daughter of the Empire State: The Life of Judge Jane Bolin University of Illinois Press December 2011 168 pages 6 x 9 in. 4 black & white photographs Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03657-6 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-252-09361-6 Jacqueline A. McLeod, Associate Professor of History and African & African American Studies Metropolitan State College of Denver The trailblazing work…
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When it Comes to Diversity, Who Counts? The Huffington Post The Blog 2014-03-26 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan When talking diversity at colleges and universities, the numbers count. Still, when it comes to mixed-race students, too often they do not count…
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[This short paper was originally written for “Jean Toomer and Politics,” a Special Session Roundtable at the 2012 MLA Conference in Seattle. I have made a few edits.]
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Jane Bolin, the Country’s First Black Woman to Become a Judge, Is Dead at 98 The New York Times 2007-01-10 Douglas Martin Jane Bolin, whose appointment as a family court judge by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1939 made her the first black woman in the United States to become a judge, died on…
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Owning my mixed-race identity: Why I don’t have to choose sides Salon Wednesday, 2014-03-12 Eternity E. Martis London, Ontario, Canada People can’t seem to understand that I’m not either black or Anglo-Pakistani, but all of the above My mother is Anglo-Pakistani and my father is Jamaican (and a quarter Chinese). I grew up with my…
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Butterfield featured on ‘Colbert Report’ The Wilson Times Wilson, North Carolina Tuesday, 2014-03-25 Corey Friedman, Times Online Editor Comic pundit Stephen Colbert argued Obamacare and the Racial Justice Act with U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield while bashing North Carolina barbecue in a playful segment spotlighting Wilson’s congressional district. Butterfield, a Democrat representing the state’s 1st District,…
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The specific details being reported aside, the deeper structural problem with mainstream media stories on the alleged postracial power of mixed-race identity or the supposed significance of changing racial demographics is that the information presented is often one-sided, simplistic, geared to a tabloid sensibility, and does not reflect the multiform ways that edifices of power…