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: November 2016
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Faculty Spotlight: Onnie Rogers Northwestern University Institute For Policy Research November 2016 IPR developmental psychologist Onnie Rogers examines how stereotypes affect youth identity. IPR developmental psychologist examines how children form their identities As an undergraduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, and as the only African-American gymnast on her college team, IPR developmental…
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This research explores how White women perceive their roles as parents to “mixed” race or biracial Black children. This qualitative project analyzes data from in person interviews, photographs and comments posted on Internet blogs, Facebook fan pages of mixed race children. Core elements of grounded theory are used as methodology to explore how White women…
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ASTD 693 – Racial Crossings Saint Louis University St. Louis, Missouri Fall 2014 Heidi Ardizzone, Associate Professor of American Studies This course examines race in American history and culture primarily through the lens of racial ambiguities, intersections, and intimacies. With attention to major theoretical frameworks for interpreting racial identity and structures, we examine historical and…
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Hapa Capsulizes Painful Moments from 2016 Asian America in Less than 90 Seconds AsAmNews 2016-11-27 Louis Chan, AsAmNews National Correspondent A popular new video out less than a week freezes in time moments in 2016 that highlight the racism and the persistent whitewashing the Asian American community faced throughout the year. The short A-woke is…
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For Interracial Couples, Growing Acceptance, With Some Exceptions The New York Times 2016-11-26 Brooke Lea Foster When I was a new mother living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 2010, I often forgot that my infant son, Harper, didn’t look like me. As I pushed him around the neighborhood, I thought of him…
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Biracial Identity Development: A Case of Black-Korean Biracial Individuals in Korea International Journal Multicultural Education Volume 18, Number 3 (2016) pages 40-57 DOI: 10.18251/ijme.v18i3.1193 Hyein Amber Kim, Lecturer in Korean Language University of Washington This study examines two cases of Black-Korean biracial individuals and 4 Black-Korean biracial public figures who were playing influential roles in…
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Whether we like to admit it or not, the result of the mixture of two races, in the long run, gives us a race reverting to the more ancient, generalized and lower type. The cross between a white man and an Indian is an Indian; the cross between a white man and a negro is…
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Blackness, Science, and Circulation of Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Luso-Brazilian World and the United States The Eighteenth Century Volume 57, Number 3, Fall 2016 pages 303-324 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2016.0020 Bruno Carvalho, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Princeton University It has become increasingly common for scholars to locate the eighteenth century as a turning point in…