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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“Almost Eliza”: Genre, Racialization, and Reading Mary King as the Mixed-Race Heroine of William G. Allen’s The American Prejudice Against Color Studies in American Fiction Volume 40, Issue 1, Spring 2013 pages 1-25 Brigitte Nicole Fielder, Assistant Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Madison In 1853, Mary King, the white daughter of abolitionists, was engaged…
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Laura Kina Fused Society 2015-04-16 Laura Kina, Vincent de Paul professor of Art, Media, & Design DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Meet today’s Fused Society contributor, the accomplished Laura Kina! “Laura Kina is a multiracial Asian American artist based in Chicago who identifies as “hapa, yonsei, and Unchinanchu” (mixed race, 4th generation Japanese American, and part of…
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Wrightsville Beach alderman pressured to resign after insult against bartender StarNews Wilmington, North Carolina 2015-04-17 Julian March WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH | Alderman Darryl Mills is facing pressure to resign after he used derogatory language to a bartender last month. Mills made the comment to Mia Banks while she was working at King Neptune Restaurant on North…
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Having Mixed-Race Kids Doesn’t Make You Non-White Mom.Me 2015-04-20 Grace Hwang Lynch, Blogger Hapa Mama Adel Vardell photography Do white parents become “less white” when they have non-white kids? That question is burning up my Facebook feed right now, thanks to an essay in the New York Times last week. In the piece published in…
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In Puerto Rico, a push to revive indigenous culture The Associated Press 2015-04-20 Anica Coto SAN LORENZO, Puerto Rico (AP) — In Puerto Rico’s misty, bamboo-studded mountains, elementary school students are studying a nearly extinct language, beating on drums and growing native crops like cassava and sweet potato as they learn about the indigenous people…
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See First Photos of Matthew McConaughey in The Free State of Jones Time 2015-04-21 Sarah Begley, Culture Reporter Matthew McConaughey stars in The Free State of Jones (Murray Close) He’s basically your Civil War boyfriend For an actor, there’s no better awards bait than an appearance-transforming role in a biographical war movie. World, meet The…
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Panel discusses mixed race scholarship Washington Square News: NYU’s Independent Student Newspaper 2015-04-21 Amanda Morris, Contributing Writer Jared Sexton speaks on the topic of mixed race individuals. Sexton is the director of the African American Studies program in UC Irvine. (Shawn Paik) In studying mixed race identities, the historical focus has been on the individual,…
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Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon Ohio University Press 2014 336 pages 6 × 9 in., 7 b&w photos, 4 maps Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8214-2120-8 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8214-2119-2 Electronic ISBN: 978-0-8214-4503-7 Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Assistant Professor of African History University of California, Davis Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of…