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: July 2017
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Despite all the talk of mainline decline, Teresa Hord Owens, the first woman of color to serve as top executive of a mainline denomination, is not in survival mode.
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In South Korea, children of mixed race can be called “mongrels”. But Han Hyun-min didn’t let racism stop him.
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Mixed Signals: Examining Ethnic Affirmation as a Factor in the Discrimination-Depression Relationship with Multiracial and Monoracial Minority Adolescent Girls University of Connecticut 2017-02-15 62 pages Linda A. Oshin A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science Multiracial adolescents are a growing segment of our population, but not…
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In a matter of days, Rev. Teresa Hord Owens will become the general minister and president of the Disciples of Christ. The appointment, pending an election on July 9 during the Disciples of Christ General Assembly in Indianapolis, will make Owens the first Black woman to lead a mainline Protestant denomination in North America.
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Authors Roshani Chokshi and Renee Ahdieh struggled to identify with the white protagonists of books they read growing up and have written stories that draw on their heritage
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While Ernest J. Gaines has generally emphasized the importance of white writers rather than black ones in his career, he shares with Charles Chesnutt an interest in the role of mixed-race characters in narrative…
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The Discourse of Konketsuji: Racialized Representations of Biracial Japanese Children in the 1950s University of Toronto March 2017 79 pages Zachery Anthony Nelson A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Department of East Asian Studies University of Toronto This study examines textual representations of biracial Japanese children…
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It never matters. The second question is, “Wait, you’re Dominican? What barrio is your mom from?” I tell them the barrio and the cross-streets, and they get vexed.