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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Professor Harris examines how whiteness, initially constructed as a form of racial identity, evolved into a form of property, historically and presently acknowledged and protected in American law. Professor Harris traces the origins of whiteness as property in the parallel systems of domination of Black and Native American peoples out of which were created racially…
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Appointment of new Chancellor University of Salford, Manchester News 2014-10-17 The distinguished award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and plays, Jackie Kay MBE, has been appointed as our new Chancellor. Jackie, who takes up the position immediately, takes over from the University’s previous Chancellor, Dr Irene Khan who stepped down earlier this year after her five-year…
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Award-winning author and poet Jackie Kay appointed as University of Salford’s new chancellor Manchester Evening News Manchester, England 2014-10-19 Dean Kirby Jackie Kay MBE succeeds Dr Irene Khan at the University of Salford, who stepped down earlier this year after her five-year term came to an end An award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and plays…
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Snap! Space presents Zun Lee Snap! Orlando 1013 E. Colonial Drive Orlando, Florida 32803 Saturday, October 25, 2014 14:00-16:00 EDT (Local Time) Join us for an afternoon artist talk and book signing with photographer Zun Lee. Zun will be joining us from Toronto and discuss his series ‘Father Figure’ and sign copies of his newly…
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Season 2, Episode 6: Stanford Prof. Allyson Hobbs Talks about A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life The Mixed Experience 2014-10-20 Heidi Durrow, Host Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University I was lucky enough to get an advance reading copy of A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing…
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Race and the Making of Family in the Atlantic World University of North Carolina, Wilmington Burney Center 601 S. College Road Wilmington, North Carolina Thursday, 2014-10-23, 19:30 EDT (Local Time) Daniel Livesay, Assistant Professor of History Drury University, Springfield, Missouri In the eighteenth-century world of slavery and the slave trade, racial prejudices were often stark…
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Olive Senior Olive Senior’s Gardening in the Tropics 2012 Hyacinth M. Simpson, Associate Professor of English Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Olive Marjorie Senior was born in the parish of Trelawny on the Caribbean island of Jamaica on 23 December 1941. The seventh of ten children, she grew up in the shadow of the Cockpit…