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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Tag: California
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The surprising truth about intermarriage in 19th-Century California
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Negotiating Ethnic Boundaries: Multiethnic Mexican Americans and Ethnic Identity in the United States Ethnicities Volume 4, Number 1 (March 2004) pages 75-97 DOI: 10.1177/1468796804040329 Tomás R. Jiménez, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University This article examines the ethnic identity of the offspring of Mexican/white (non-Hispanic) intermarriages, or multiethnic Mexican Americans, using 20 in-depth interviews with…
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Re-Mix: Rethinking the use of ‘Hapa’ in Mixedrace Asian/Pacific Islander American Community Organizing McNair Journal Fall 2005 Angela S. Taniguchi, McNair Scholar Washington State University Linda Heidenreich, Chair and Associate Professor Department of Women’s Studies Washington State University The term Hapa is Hawaiian in origin and roughly means ‘half’. Recently, many mixedrace Asian/Pacific Islanders on…