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: January 2016
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Her Father’s People Stanford Magazine July/August 2009 Erin Aubry Kaplan Antonin Kratochvil WEDDED IDEALISM: Danzy Senna was the middle child born to Fanny Howe and Carl Senna. For years, Danzy Senna thoughtfully explored issues of race and identity in fiction, including her novels Caucasia and Symptomatic. And then one day the author, walking through Harvard…
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White Earth members approve new constitution The Minneapolis Star Tribune 2013-11-21 Pam Louwagie New constitution does away with blood quantum rule. In a historic vote that could vastly increase their membership, White Earth Band of Ojibwe members have overwhelmingly approved a new constitution. The new document removes a requirement that tribal citizens possess one-quarter Minnesota…
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In order to create a just society for Americans of every race—and multiple races—we need to officially acknowledge and protect the rights of multiracial people. Mono-racial policies leave growing numbers of Americans unprotected from racial discrimination. It is time for race policy in the U.S. to acknowledge the nation’s new demographics and work for a…
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With “Symptomatic,” the follow-up to her acclaimed debut novel “Caucasia,” Danzy Senna again delves into race in America — and defies second-book syndrome
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Identity and racial ambiguity in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia North Carolina Central University 2015 82 pages Carole Bonita Montgomery Set in 1970s Boston, Danzy Senna’s novel, Caucasia (1998) centers around biracial Birdie Lee, whose racial identity is complex as she defines and redefines herself from her youth through young adulthood. Birdie and Cole Lee are daughters…
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Contested Identities: Racial Indeterminacy and Law in the American Novel, 1900-1942 University of Connecticut 2014-05-08 Rebecca S. Nisetich In Contested Identities, I chart the path of the legal and literary discourses on racial identity, codified by the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision and culturally ascendant in the early decades of the twentieth century. In this…
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An Artist Stands Before Her Fun House Mirror The New York Times 2016-01-06 Amanda Fortini Genevieve Gaignard, “A Golden State of Mind” installation, 2015. Credit: Eric Minh Swenson, via The Cabin LA and Diane Rosenstein LOS ANGELES — On a recent Friday afternoon, Genevieve Gaignard, a photographer, collagist and installation artist, was sitting on her…
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A Romance of (Miscege)Nations: Ann Sophia Stephens’ Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter (1839, 1860) Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory Volume 63, Number 1, Spring 2007 pages 1-25 DOI: 10.1353/arq.2007.0000 Yu-Fang Cho, Associate Professor of English; Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Miami University, Oxford, Ohio…