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: May 2016
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Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century University of California Press May 2015 414 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520284296 Paperback ISBN: 9780520284302 E-Book ISBN: 9780520959903 Marc Matera, Assistant Professor of History University of California, Santa Cruz This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site…
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Charles Chesnutt Racial Relation Progression Throughout Career Cleveland State University May 2011 60 pages Lindy R. Birney Submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Master of English Charles Chesnutt began his career with an ideology that race should not be a category in which to judge others. He felt that through literature he…
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Amrita Hepi interview Time Out Sydney 2015-05-24 Dee Jefferson, Arts & Culture Editor Sydney knows – and loves – Amrita for her Hollaback nights and Beyoncé dance classes, but her latest project is far more fierce Amrita Hepi was in the final creative phase of her dance-theatre work Passing, with New Zealand-born dancer and spoken-word…
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Skinship: Dialectical Passing Plots in Hannah Crafts’ The Bondwoman’s Narrative American Literary Realism Volume 46, Number 2, Winter 2014 pages 116-136 Martha J. Cutter, Professor of English and Africana Studies University of Connecticut Racial definitions were in crisis within the U.S. during the mid-nineteenth century, with the country moving closer and closer to a Civil…
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‘In Negroland we thought of ourselves as the Third Race’ The Guardian 2016-05-22 Margo Jefferson An extract from Negroland, Margo Jefferson’s memoir of growing up in postwar America’s emerging black elite Margo Jefferson: ‘I was anxious about using the word Negro in a book title’ I was taught to avoid showing off. I was taught…
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Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the ’60s The New York Times 2016-05-22 Cara Buckley, Culture Reporter Janelle Monáe, left, Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer in “Hidden Figures,” which is slated for release in January. Credit Hopper Stone/20th Century Fox ATLANTA — Taraji P. Henson hates math, and Octavia Spencer has a…
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Ethnicity does not define one’s character The Royal Gazette Hamilton, Bermuda 2016-04-15 Christopher Famous There has been debate on social media recently about good hair vs bad hair, persons of mixed ethnicities, light skin vs dark skin. After a conversation with someone deeply concerned with these issues, I decided to dig up a column I…
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The half-Chinese children on growing up find little difficulty in obtaining work or in entering into marriage with the surrounding white population. The girls in particular are attractive and good-looking. On the other hand, the Anglo-negroid children when grown up do not easily get work or mix with the ordinary population. Maurice Broody, “The Social…
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Marriage and cohabitation have become so common in New York and Boston as scarcely to attract attention, except as the astounding fact occasionally breaks upon one, that there are whole blocks and rows of houses with ‘every tenement occupied by families the head of each of which is, the one black and the other white!’…
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Spotlight: Beneath Japan’s polite veneer lies secret codes of racial hatred aimed at minorities, foreigners China.org.cn (China Internet Information Center) State Council Information Office and the China International Publishing Group (CIPG), Beijing, China 2016-05-21 Xinhua News Agency Is Japan a gentle nation? For many people who have little knowledge about the island country or just…