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: April 2015
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Genes Don’t Cause Racial-Health Disparities, Society Does The Atlantic 2015-04-13 Jason Silverstein, Teaching Fellow in Anthropology Harvard University Researchers are looking in the wrong place: White people live longer not because of their DNA but because of inequality. On April 24, 2003, shortly after the completion of the human genome project, its director Francis Collins…
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Bigots beware – you have fewer places to hide in mixed-heritage Britain The Guardian 2015-04-26 Hugh Muir The makeup of Britain is changing. Anyone who thinks they can get away with casual racism is making a big mistake The Runnymede Trust’s report on Race and Elections tells us that one of the groups least likely…
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On Slave Ownership, Privilege and One Drop One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval 2015-04-21 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Writer, Performer and co-Producer For just a little over two years I have traveled across the United States performing the one-woman show I wrote and produce, One Drop of Love. One Drop…
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My body is not an apology: Race, Representation & Beauty by Emma Dabiri Thandie Kay 2015-04-19 Emma Dabiri, Teaching Fellow Africa Department, School of African and Oriental Studies, London Visual Sociology Ph.D. Researcher, Goldsmiths University of London Emma Dabiri Emma Dabiri is an Irish-Nigerian PhD researcher in Goldsmiths, and teaching fellow in the Africa Department…
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Don’t portray this state I love as a hotbed of racial discontent The Bangor Daily News Bangor, Maine 2015-04-20 Trish Callahan, Special to the BDN When I played high school basketball, we travelled up to The County to play a couple times. Because of the distance we would stay with host families, and we attended…
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Fast Talking PI Arc Publications July 2012 80 pages 216 x 138 mm (paperback), 223 x 145 mm (hardback) Paperback ISBN: 978-1904614-35-7 Hardback ISBN: 978-1904614-77-7 Selina Tusitala Marsh, Senior Lecturer of English Drama and Writing Studies University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Fast Talking PI (pronounced pee-eye) reflects the poet’s focus on issues affecting Pacific…
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Fast Talking PI: A Reading by Selina Tusitala Marsh Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU 8 Washington Mews New York, New York 10003 Monday, 2015-04-27, 16:00-18:00 EDT (Local Time) Auckland-based poet and scholar Selina Tusitala Marsh reads from her award-winning collection, Fast Talking PI. NYU Performance Studies Graduate student and Indigeneous artist, facilitator, and organizer si dåko’ta…
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Visualizing Racial Mixture and Movement: Music, Notation, Illustration J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2015 pages 146-155 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2015.0009 Brigitte Fielder, Assistant Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Madison The archive of nineteenth-century visual culture abounds with illustrations of racial difference reflect anxieties about racial mixture and movement. Race extends beyond…
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Racial Reflections American Book Review Volume 36, Number 2, January/February 2015 page 13 DOI: 10.1353/abr.2015.0007 Ben Railton, Associate Professor of English Fitchburg State University, Fitchburg, Massachusetts Hobbs, Allyson, A Chosen Exile: History of Racial Passing in American Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014) Even without a back-cover blurb from Isabel Wilkerson, it seems inevitable that…