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: July 2014
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Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial. Ralina L. Joseph. [Cannon] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic LIterature of the United States Volume 39, Issue 3 (Fall 2014) pages 207-209 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlu028 Sarita Cannon, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature San Francisco State University Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional…
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Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference by Anne Pollock (review) Bulletin of the History of Medicine Volume 88, Number 2, Summer 2014 pages 393-395 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2014.0025 Lundy Braun, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Africana Studies Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Anne Pollock, Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference…
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“The contemporary American fascination with “mixed race” and “biracial” identity is a reflection of changing demographics and globalization; it is also a surrender to and performance of a shallow type of faux cosmopolitanism. Ironically, the race scientists of Nazi Germany and the United States, as well as the photographer Cyjo (whose work was featured in Slate’s essay) who fetishize and find…
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ARC Introduces Tiana Reid as Junior Arts Writer ARC: Art. Recognition. Culture. 2014-02-03 Tiana Reid I laboured for quite some time over what to write as my introduction to joining ARC Magazine’s team as Junior Arts Writer. How to approach the unstarted? I was thinking first of preparing a brief manifesto-like document. That was one…
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“Employing discredited biological over cultural definitions of who is an Indian and who is not is an assault on our self-determination. We have endured 450 years of forced assimilation which included slavery and post slavery intermarriage, making our walk one of plurality. We are therefore all multiracial. Blood mixing is also believed to be the…
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Census Bureau explores new Middle East/North Africa ethnic category Pew Research Center 2014-03-24 Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer/Editor Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project Organizations representing people of Middle Eastern and North African descent are asking the Census Bureau to add a new ethnic category on forms. People of this heritage are now categorized as “white,”…
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Black Indians are constantly confronted with the fact that they do not fit any of society’s stereotypes for Native Americans. Those stereotypes are imposed by both whites and sadly, other Indians.