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 2016
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Jackie Kay’s Quest For Her Roots – Theresa Muñoz Scottish Review of Books Volume 6, Issue 3 (2010-08-12) Theresa Muñoz Adopted at birth, Jackie Kay discovered neither of her birth parents were who she’d thought they’d be, her new memoir recalls. “If you have skin my colour” writes Jackie Kay in her memoir Red Dust…
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“Whitening” and Whitewashing: Postcolonial Brazil is not an Egalitarian “Rainbow Nation” The Postcolonialist 2014-03-04 Sarah Lempp To commemorate the 500th anniversary of its “discovery” by Portuguese sailor Alvares de Cabral in 2000, Brazil officially presented itself as a “rainbow nation” without discrimination or racism; a place where people from various ethnicities live peacefully together. That…
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Purchasing Whiteness: Race and Status in Colonial Latin America Not Even Past: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” —William Faulkner Department of History University of Texas at Austin 2015-09-01 Ann Twinam, Professor of History University of Texas, Austin Let’s start with a question and a comparison. What do you think would have…
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Good Girls Don’t Date Dead Boys: Toying with Miscegenation in Zombie Films Journal of Popular Film and Television Volume 42, Issue 4, 2014 DOI: 10.1080/01956051.2014.881772 pages 176-185 Chera Kee, Assistant Professor of English Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Concerning in-between bodies, zombie films have a unique vantage on miscegenation. Exploring earlier films alongside contemporary romantic…
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Helping mixed-race Asian kids navigate a world that isn’t post-racial The Seattle Times 2016-03-16 Jerry Large, Columnist Sharon H. Chang is author of “Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Children in a Post-Racial World.” (Courtesy of Sheila Addleman) Seattle author writes about the challenges of raising multiracial Asian children in America and helping then overcome racial biases.…
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Critical Mixed Race Studies Is Now An Association Critical Mixed Race Studies 2016-03-16 Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS) is so pleased to announce we are now officially an association! Join us in becoming an inaugural member (membership = conference registration even if you can’t attend). #CMRS2017 will be held at University of Southern California Feb…
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“I’m a Dominiyorkian of mixed decent. If you read my book [Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina] you will find that I’m mixed and that I am just one example of the many of how the new world came to be. I’m the genetic evidence that the new world happened. So can’t just turn my…