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: September 2016
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T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928 University Press of Florida 2008-06-15 342 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3232-0 Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3548-2 Shawn Leigh Alexander, Associate Professor of African-American Studies University of Kansas Born into slavery, T. Thomas Fortune was known as the dean of African American journalism…
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Not under my roof: Interracial relationships and black image in post-World War II film Northern Illinois University 2015 56 pages Publication Number: 10008811 ProQuest document ID: 1765648575 ISBN: 9781339455150 Andre Berchiolly This thesis examines the historical implications of miscegenation and interracial interactions between minority males and white females in Post-World War II independent cinema. Elia…
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Renowned ballerina Misty Copeland sends an inspiring message to girls of Colorado The Denver Post Denver, Colorado 2016-09-21 Molly Hughes She overcame difficult childhood to become first African-American female principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre American dancer Misty Copeland knows about overcoming the odds and pushing through adversity to achieve a dream. As the…
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A Single Migration From Africa Populated the World, Studies Find The New York Times 2016-09-21 Carl Zimmer The KhoiSan, hunter-gatherers living today in southern Africa, above, are among hundreds of indigenous people whose genetic makeup has provided new clues to human prehistory. Credit: Eric Laforgue/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty Images Modern humans evolved in Africa roughly 200,000…
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The Ambiguous and the Mundane: Racial Performance and Asian Americans Contemporary Literature Volume 57, Number 2, Summer 2016 pages 292-300 Josephine D. Lee, Professor of English and Asian American University of Minnesota Jennifer Ann Ho, Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture. New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2015. xi + 215 pp. $90.00…
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‘Raising Mixed Race’: An Evening with Sharon H. Chang and Tangerine The Seattle Public Library Central Library Level 1 – Microsoft Auditorium 1000 Fourth Avenue Seattle, Washington 98104-1109 Thursday, 2016-09-29, 19:00-21:00 PDT (Local Time) Join us for an author talk, and live music by Seattle band Tangerine, to celebrate the final stop of Sharon H.…
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The untold stories of Japanese war brides The Washington Post 2016-09-22 Kathryn Tolbert, Deputy Editor Hiroko and Bill with Kathy, left, Sam and Susan. The video is the trailer to a short documentary film, “Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides,” which features Hiroko and two other war brides. They married the…
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Lessons to my child Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey May 2012 98 pages DOI: 10.7282/T3GB221X Ayanna S. Boyd According to the U.S. Census Bureau, interracial marriages have continued to increase with 8.4 million people in mixed marriages in 2005. With the increasing number of interracial marriages, there has been a surge of multiracial…
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Hapa-palooza Festival 2016 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2016-09-23 through 2016-09-25 CELEBRATING MIXED HERITAGE The sixth annual Hapa-palooza Festival runs for the month of September 2016, including a month long Hybrid Identity Art Exhibit at the Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, and three days of free community programming welcoming all from Sept. 23-25th: For more information, click…