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: September 2015
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Adolescent Racial Identity: Self-Identification of Multiple and “Other” Race/Ethnicities Urban Education Published online before print: 2015-03-18 DOI: 10.1177/0042085915574527 Bryn Harris, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Colorado, Denver Russell D. Ravert, Associate Professor Department of Human Development & Family Studies University of Missouri, Columbia Amanda L. Sullivan, Associate Professor of Psychology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis…
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More than that, The Sneetches taps into one of the fears that segregationists held, and which was represented as an ever-present danger in the Northern as well as the Southern states: the fear of “passing.” In a country where “one drop of African blood” made a person black and not white, worries about being able…
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Does ‘Half Chinese, Half Jewish’ Condemn Me To Being Neither? Forward 2015-08-21 Rachel E. Gross When I was four years old, my father introduced me to his colleague, Jing. “Are you Chinese?” I asked, eyeing her shrewdly. “Yes,” she replied. “So am I,” I said. “And shoe-ish, too!” My father likes to tell this story,…
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Mixed Messages: The Role of the Multiracial Character in Children’s Literature theracetoread: Children’s Literature and Issues of Race 2015-08-20 Karen Sands-O’Connor, Professor English Department Buffalo State, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York In 19th and early 20th century children’s literature, the multiracial character generally evoked one of two responses: fear, or pity.…