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 2018
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As a half-white, half-Asian woman I find myself viewed by my white surroundings as a safe and relatable personification of their orientalist fascinations. I theorize that this intercalary role is a convenient tool for white people to mask racial tensions and guilt. By exhibiting acceptance to people of color who embody whiteness, such as in…
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According to Alaina Roberts of the University of Pittsburgh, Native American nations “have always had this fear, and a valid fear, that when they accept black people as part of their tribe they are seen as not ‘Indian first’.” Caleb Gayle, “The black Americans suing to reclaim their Native American identity,” The Guardian, November 2,…
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Their ancestors were black slaves owned by Native Americans. Now they’re suing the Creek nation to fully restore their citizenship
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A cute cartoon dog sits in front of a computer, gazing at the monitor and typing away busily. The cartoon’s caption jubilantly proclaims, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog!” This image resonates with particular intensity for those members of a rapidly expanding subculture which congregates within the consensual hallucination defined as cyberspace.
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This talk explores the phenomenon of ‘passing-for-white’ as represented in the work of transatlantic literary women ranging from Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen to contemporary British writer Helen Oyeyemi and asks why passing continues to inspire women writers across the West.
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Philosophers Naomi Zack of the University of Oregon, Rebecca Tuvel of Rhodes College, and Diarmuid Costello of the University of Warwick discuss the ways in which Adrian Piper’s art interrogates racial identity, focusing on specific works as well as Piper’s own writings about race, “Passing for White, Passing for Black” and Escape to Berlin: A…
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She thinks ballet’s broken – and has a plan to fix it. The star of Disney’s Nutcracker reboot talks about racism, nude shoes and growing up bendy
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Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture Rutgers University Press 2018-10-17 296 pages 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-9788-0130-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-9788-0131-8 PDF ISBN: 978-1-9788-0134-9 EPUB ISBN: 978-1-9788-0132-5 MobiPocket ISBN: 978-1-9788-0133-2 Edited by: Domino Perez, Associate Professor of English University of Texas, Austin Rachel González-Martin, Assistant Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies University of…
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Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize Rutgers University Press 2018-11-01 226 pages 24 b&w images 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8135-9698-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-9699-0 EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8135-9700-3 MobiPocket ISBN: 978-0-8135-9701-0 PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-9702-7 Melissa A. Johnson, Professor of Anthropology Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas Becoming Creole explores how people become who they are through their…