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: October 2014
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While literary scholars have long mined the “tragic mulatto” theme, until recently US historians have rarely explored and barely acknowledged the clandestine world of the tens of thousands of black people, across many generations, who masqueraded as white. Here, Allyson Hobbs provides fresh analysis of an oft-ignored phenomenon, and the result is as fascinating as…
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Those who masqueraded as white scarred more than just themselves, finds Catherine Clinton
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Conceptualizing, and Re-conceptualizing, Mixed Race Identity Development Theories and Canada’s Multicultural Framework in Historical Context SFU Educational Review Volume 1, Number 1 (2014) ISSN: 1916-050X 18 pages Samantha Fischer Department of Psychology Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada “Racism is like a fleet-footed bedbug that runs for cover under a sweet-smelling duvet stuffed with…
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The Electoral Consequences of Skin Color: The “Hidden” Side of Race in Politics Political Behavior Volume 34, Issue 1 (March 2012) pages 159-192 DOI: 10.1007/s11109-010-9152-7 Vesla M. Weaver, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Political Science Yale University Despite the significant role that skin color plays in material well-being and social perceptions, scholars know…