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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Grafton Tyler Brown—whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American—finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. Working in an environment hostile to African American achievement, Brown became a successful commercial artist and businessman in the rough-and-tumble gold rush era and the years after the Civil War. Best known for his bird’s-eye cityscapes,…
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How I Learned To Feel Undesirable Code Switch: Fronter of Race, Culure and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-02-04 Noah Cho For the past few weeks, we’ve convened a conversation about romance across racial and cultural lines. Some of the most eloquent accounts we encountered came from a Bay Area junior high school teacher named Noah…
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Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego [Floyd Review] The Journal of San Diego History Volume 59, Number 4 (Fall 2013) pages 291-292 Carlton Floyd, Associate Professor of English University of San Diego Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego. By Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,…
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American Sons & Daughters: Mixed Race, Identity in Southern California KCET Television Burbank, California 2013-12-04 Susan Straight, Professor of Creative Writing University of California, Riverside This is how we began. I looked out at the 300 faces before me and said, “How many of you in this classroom are often asked, in a bar or…
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UCLA receiver Thomas Duarte proud of biracial heritage Los Angeles Daily News 2013-11-25 Jack Wang, Staff Reporter The smell hits him three or four blocks away. Thomas Duarte is coming back from a run around his Orange County neighborhood, and the day is hot enough that the windows of his house have been cracked open.…
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Prematurity and Low Birth Weight as Potential Mediators of Higher Stillbirth Risk in Mixed Black/White Race Couples Journal of Women’s Health Volume 19, Issue 4 (2010-04-26) pages 767–773. DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2009.1561 Katherine J. Gold, M.D., M.S.W., M.S. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Sonya M. DeMonner, M.P.H. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs…
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Garcetti, New Los Angeles Mayor, Reflects Changing City The New York Times 2013-10-07 Jennifer Medina LOS ANGELES — He is Jewish. He is Latino. He can break dance and play jazz piano. He speaks nearly impeccable Spanish. He has talked longingly about growing his own vegetables and maybe even raising his own chickens. He lives…