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: South Korea
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Decades ago, many children born to Korean mothers and foreign fathers were adopted by families overseas. Now, a growing number of half-Korean adoptees are returning to Korea to find their birth mothers. Here are some of their stories.
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More Korean adoptees are organizing to search for their birth parents through DNA testing
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PAJU, South Korea, March 8 (Yonhap) — A park for mixed-race Korean adoptees sent abroad in the years after the 1950-53 Korean War will be built inside a former U.S. military base on the outskirts of Seoul, officials said Wednesday.
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Patricia Park talks about her Korean American spin on Jane Eyre The Los Angeles Times 2015-05-12 Steph Cha Patricia Park, author of “Re Jane” (Allana Taranto/Viking) What if Jane Eyre was a Korean American girl and Rochester was a English professor? Patricia Park on ‘Re Jane‘ Patricia Park’s debut novel, “Re Jane” (Pamela Dorman/Viking: 340…
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Re Jane: A Novel Pamela Dorman Books (an imprint of Penguin Random House) 2015-05-05 352 Pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0525427407 Paperback ISBN: 978-0143107941 Patricia Park For Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she’s been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet vulnerable, Jane toils, unappreciated, in her strict uncle’s…
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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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Eyes Wide Cut: The American Origins of Korea’s Plastic Surgery Craze The Wilson Quarterly Fall 2015 Laura Kurek South Korea’s obsession with cosmetic surgery can be traced back to an American doctor, raising uneasy questions about beauty standards. At sixteen stories high, the doctor’s office looms over the neon-colored metropolis. Within the high-rise, consultation offices,…
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Unpublished Black Asian History Grits and Sushi: my musings on okinawa, race, militarization, and blackness 2016-03-08 Mitzi Uehara Carter This photo captures a quiet story of a multicultural South, black philanthropy, transpacific militarism and its hauntings, the organizing strength of of Black women, and the power of Black journalism and photography. How does this one…
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Mixed-Race Korean Adoptees Use DNA to Search For Roots NBC News 2016-03-02 Young Jin Kim Sarah Savidakis, 55, lived in South Korea until she was nine years old, at which time she was adopted by a Connecticut family. For Savidakis, who says she has grappled with the effects of early childhood trauma, memories of her…