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: May 2014
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But your hair is so beautiful… Black Women of Brazil 2014-05-08 Stephanie Paes (orginally published on 2013-06-12 as “Mas seu cabelo é tão bonito…” in Falando sem permissão) I know that it is. And only I understand the time I needed to take account of this (1). My hair is crespo (curly/kinky). It has gone…
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Defining Mixed Race Feminism Musings of a Mixed Race Feminist: Random diatribes from a mixed race feminist scholar. 2014-05-16 Donna J. Nicol, Associate Professor Women & Gender Studies California State University, Fullerton …Question of the Day: What is mixed race feminism? Good question given mixed race and gender issues aren’t often brought in conversation together even…
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Great Asian-Pacific American Authors: Amy Tan, Jhumpa Lahiri, and More Bookish 2014-05-15 Elizabeth Rowe May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage month in the U.S., and, to honor the occasion, we’ve highlighted some of our favorite (but by no means all of our favorite) authors of Asian-Pacific heritage who celebrate their cultures in their writing. From classics such as Yoko…
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Allyson Hobbs: Racial Passing and African American Family Life in Jim Crow America The Ethics@noon Series The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society Stanford University 2011-02-04 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University On February 4th, 2011 Allyson Hobbs discussed the Jim Crow era as a watershed in the history of racial passing.…
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One Drop of Love – Lounge Theater 1, Los Angeles Plays 411 May 2014 Saturday, 2014-05-31 20:30 PDT (Local Time) Lounge Theatre 1 6201 Santa Monica Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90038 How does our belief in ‘race’ affect our most intimate relationships? One Drop of Love is a multimedia solo performance exploring family, race, love,…
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More Hispanics Declaring Themselves White The New York Times 2014-05-21 Nate Cohn Hispanics are often described as driving up the nonwhite share of the population. But a new study of census forms finds that more Hispanics are identifying as white. An estimated net 1.2 million Americans of the 35 million Americans identified in 2000 as…
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“Hafu” an AMAZING Start But We Need to Go Deeper Multiracial Asian Families 2014-05-20 Sharon Chang About a week ago I had the chance to do something I’ve been wanting to do (and bugging the filmmakers about for a long time)—finally go to a local screening of the documentary Hafu, meaning “half,” which represents 5…
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Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia by Eva Sheppard Wolf (review) [Padraig Riley] Civil War History Volume 60, Number 2, June 2014 pages 199-201 DOI: 10.1353/cwh.2014.0041 Padraig Riley, Assistant Professor of History Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Wolf, Eva Sheppard, Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in…
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Things to Know When Talking About Race and Genetics Psychology Today 2014-05-13 Agustín Fuentes, Professor of Anthropology University of Notre Dame On May 5th, 2014, I shared the platform in a webinar debate with Nicholas Wade (former NYTimes Science Writer) about his new book “A Troublesome Inheritance – A discussion on genes, race and…