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: April 2014
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CNST 419 – The Metis People of Canada University of Calgary Fall 2013 An interdisciplinary study of the Metis people of Canada, with special emphasis on the social, economic, and political factors influencing their emergence and continued survival as a distinct indigenous group in Canada. (formerly Canadian Studies 401.04) For more information, click here.
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Stunning Self-Portraits Make You Think Twice About Interracial Identity In South America The Huffington Post 2014-04-25 Katherine Brooks, Arts & Culture Editor Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão has been exploring themes of interracial identity through an unlikely medium—self-portraits. To confront and challenge concepts like colonialism and miscegenation in her home country, she turns her own visage…
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What Does the Education Dept. Know About Race? The Chronicle of Higher Education 2014-04-28 Johnah Newman, Database Reporter Our post last week on minority enrollment and diversity at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor sparked a lively debate in the comments section about demographic data and diversity. “I must admit that I am scratching…
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Is Race/Ethnicity Related to Presence or Severity of Pain in Colorectal and Lung Cancer? Journal of Pain and Symptom Management Published online: 2014-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.02.005 Kathryn A. Martinez, PhD, MPH, Postdoctoral Fellow CanSORT (Cancer Surveillance & Outcomes Research Team) Ann Arbor VA Health Services Research & Development Center, University of Michgan, Ann Arbor Claire F.…
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Opinion: Supreme Court ruling upholds America’s mixed view Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-04-24 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan (CNN) — I didn’t expect to find the specter of the mixed-race person making an appearance in Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision that upheld…
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General Mills CEO: Doubling down on mixed-race commercial was ‘right thing’ to do Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal 2014-04-22 Nick Halter, Staff Reporter General Mills Inc. CEO Ken Powell told a crowd of minority business owners Tuesday that his company didn’t give into racist hate mail when it doubled down on a Cheerios commercial that featured…
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This assimilationist ideology, commonly called “whitening” by the elite after 1890 (Skidmore 1974), had taken hold by the early twentieth century, and continues to be Brazil’s predominant racial ideology today. In effect, the Brazilian elite argued that Brazil, unlike the U.S. to which they frequently (and unfavorably) compared it, had no racial problem: no U.S.…