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: March 2015
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Blood Work: Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890-1940 Louisiana State University Press January 2015 240 pages 5.50 x 8.50 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780807157848 Shawn Salvant, Assistant Professor of English and African American University of Connecticut The invocation of blood—as both an image and a concept—has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In…
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Lives of Afro-German men and women are focus of Canisius College exhibit The Buffalo News Buffalo, New York 2015-03-12 An exhibit that provides a look at the lives of Afro-German men and women living in Germany during the past three centuries will open March 24 in Alumni Hall, between the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library and…
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“I was living in a racial closet”: Black filmmaker Lacey Schwartz on growing up white Salon Sunday, 2015-03-22 Marissa Charles A photo of Lacey Schwartz and her mother, in “Little White Lie” (Credit: PBS) Schwartz talks to Salon about race, privilege, family secrets and her new PBS documentary “Little White Lie” For the first 18…
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“Intermarriage between whites and blacks is repulsive and averse to every sentiment of pure American spirit. It is abhorrent and repugnant. It is subversive to social peace. It is destructive of moral supremacy, and ultimately this slavery to black beasts will bring this nation to a fatal conflict” —Representative Seaborn Roddenberry of Georgia (January 1913)…
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I’m a White Mom With Biracial Children, and What I Do With Their Hair Is No One’s Business The Root 2015-03-24 Maria Guido, Associate Editor Mommyish Being the mother of two biracial children, I’m noticing that both races feel a sense of community when offering boundary-invading, unsolicited hair-care advice. Maybe I’m just not the type…
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The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada by Joanne Rappaport (review) [von Germeten] The Americas Volume 72, Number 1, January 2015 pages 159-160 Nicole von Germeten, Associate Professor of History Oregon State University Rappaport, Joanne, The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada (Durham: Duke University…