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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Day: June 15, 2016
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‘A New Holland Half-Caste’: Sealer and Whaler Tommy Chaseland History Australia Volume 5, Issue 1, 2008 pages 08.1-08.15 DOI: 10.2104/ha080008 Lynette Russell, Professor Monash University, Australia This article discusses the life of Tommy Chaseland, a ‘half-caste’ Aboriginal son of a convict who became a renowned sealer and whaler and emigrated to New Zealand in the…
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COLORED VASSAR GIRL. The Saint Paul Globe Sunday, 1897-09-05 page 21, column 7 People at Poughkeepsie Thought Miss Hemmings Was a Spaniard. Anita Florence Hemmings, the Boston girl who has stirred up such a sensation by daring to complete a course at exclusive Vassar when she new that there was negro blood in her veins,…
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The penalties of miscegenation Patterns of Prejudice Volume 6, Issue 3, 1972 pages 10-12 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.1972.9969062 Mary Dines (1927-2011) Paragraph 24 of “Commonwealth Citizens: Control after Entry: Immigration Rules” (Cmd. 4295) reads: “If a man who was admitted as a visitor or student, or in some other temporary capacity, marries a woman who is a…
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Visible and Invisible Hapa Exhibit at Japanese American Museum San Jose Hapa Mama: Asian Fusion Family and Food 2016-05-20 Grace Hwang Lynch Bay Area people… there’s an exhibit about the history of hapa Japanese Americans at the Japanese American Museum in San Jose. Titled Visible and Invisible, it’s similar to the exhibit of the same…
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Uncovering the story of a grandmother’s racial passing and its effect on following generations.
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Hybrid by Robert Wood Mascara Literary Review 2015-10-04 Robert Wood Robert Wood grew up in a multicultural household in Perth. He holds degrees from the Australian National University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a National Undergraduate Scholar and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow respectively. He has edited for Margaret River Press, Wild Dingo…
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“White Enough to Pass”: Uncovering the story of John Wesley Gibson underbelly: From the Deepest Corners of the Maryland Historical Society Library 2016-01-21 Excerpt from William Still’s 1872 book, The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, & c., Narrating the Hardships Hair-breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in their Efforts…
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Book Launch: A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs The Powerhouse Arena 37 Main Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 Telephone: 718.666.3049 Wednesday 2016-06-15, 19:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) Focusing on individuals and their experiences, Allyson Hobbs examines how racial passing became both a strategy for survival and an avenue…