Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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 2016
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Blanket Fort Chats: Game Making With Meagan Byrne FemHype: the safe space for women & nonbinary gamers 2016-04-01 Miss N (Nicole Pacampara) “Blanket Fort Chats” is a weekly column featuring women and nonbinary game makers talking about the craft of making games. In this week’s post, we feature Meagan Byrne, a Toronto-based Game Design student…
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Whiteness and Miscegenation: Ethnographic Notes, Social Classifications and Silences in the Brazilian Context Studi Culturali Volume VII, Number 1, April 2010 pages 87-102 DOI: 10.1405/31883 Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz Dipartimento di studi linguistici e culturali Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia This article presents some reflections from ongoing research on white upper-middle class men…
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Can a Dress Shirt Be Racist? Backchannel 2016-03-31 Moises Velasquez-Manoff Illustration by Michael Marsicano A startup finds that asking for certain data improves the fit of its clothes — and lands the company in a cultural minefield In 2008, an entrepreneur named Seph Skerritt was frustrated with the way he shopped for clothes. Then a student at…
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Fear of Small Numbers: «Brown Babies» in Postwar Italy Contemporanea Volume XVIII, Number 4, October-December 2015 pages 537-568 DOI: 10.1409/81438 Silvana Patriarca, Professor of History Fordham University: The Jesuit University of New York By drawing in an interdisciplinary fashion on a variety of different sources (some of them archives only recently made available to the…
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Professor Silvana Patriarca is a faculty member in the Fordham University History department and specializes in modern Italian history. She is currently exploring the interaction between ideas of nation and “race” and working on a book about the history of racism in post-World War II Italy. Her new book will focus on “mixed-race” children born…
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Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora University Press of Florida 2014-06-17 240 pages 6.125 x 9.256 Hard Cover ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4979-3 Bénédicte Boisseron, Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies University of Montana In Creole Renegades, Bénédicte Boisseron looks at exiled Caribbean authors—Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, V. S. Naipaul, Maryse…
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“We Called That Touch” Boston Review 2016-03-28 Ed Pavlić, Professor of English and Creative Writing University of Georgia Race and the Intimate Tangle of American Experience It might seem to you that I am white. Then again, depending upon how and where we meet—and upon things in your life I know nothing about—it might seem…
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Construction and initial validation of the Multiracial Experiences Measure (MEM) Journal of Counseling Psychology Volume 63, Issue 2, March 2016 pages 198-209 DOI: 10.1037/cou0000117 Hyung Chol Yoo, Associate Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies Arizona State University Kelly F. Jackson, Associate Professor of Social Work Arizona State University, Phoenix Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., Asian Pacific…