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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Day of Absence 2016: Carolyn Prouty – Race-Based Medicine: What It Is And Why It’s a Problem The Evergreen State College Productions Olympia, Washington 2016-04-06 Carolyn Prouty There is no biological basis for race; it is a socially constructed concept. Nonetheless, the structural nature of racism in society manifests itself in different health outcomes for…
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Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People by Michel Hogue (review) Labour / Le Travail Issue 77, Spring 2016 pages 297-299 DOI: 10.1353/llt.2016.0039 Sterling Evans, Louise Welsh Chair in Southern Plains and Borderlands History University of Oklahoma Michel Hogue, Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a…
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Playing Asian: A Review of AATP’s “Yellow Face” Standford Arts Review 2016-05-05 Loralee Sepsey “You don’t have to live as an Asian every day of your life.” These words, spoken by the character David Henry Hwang (Newton Cheng) in Stanford’s Asian American Theater Project’s production of Hwang’s “unreliable memoir” Yellow Face, ring clear throughout the…
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Why Is There No “Linsanity” Over LA Lakers’ Jordan Clarkson? Psychology Today 2016-05-09 E. J. R. David Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology University of Alaska, Anchorage Lack of hype on NBA star may reflect larger issues in Asian American community May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. May is also when the National Basketball Association…
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Chris Harper Mercer’s “Mixed Race” Identity and the Umpqua Community College Shooting Daily Kos 2015-10-02 Chauncey DeVega It is a new/old day in America. On Thursday, there was another mass shooting. On Friday, today, and tomorrow, and in the week’s thereafter America’s politicians will do nothing to stop the plague of gun violence. This is…
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It’s not all black or white: reporter struggles with mixed-race identity The Lowell Lowell High School, San Francisco, California 2015-11-24 Rachael Schmidt Reporter Rachael Schmidt is half white and half black. Photo by Kiara Gil. I arrived at my cousin Angela’s fourteenth birthday party and was the first one there. Her mom is from Malaysia…
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Racial Passing in American Life The Hill Center Washington, D.C. 2016-05-10 Lisa Page, Director of Creative Writing at The George Washington University, and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, #Passing, moderates a discussion with Dr. Allyson Hobbs. Hobbs is an assistant professor of American history at Stanford University. She is the author of A Chosen Exile:…