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: Australia
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An Heir to a Tribe’s Culture Ensures Its Language Is Not Forgotten The Saturday Profile The New York Times 2016-04-08 Michelle Innis Stan Grant, a Wiradjuri elder, at his home in Narrandera, Australia. Mr. Grant was an author of “A New Wiradjuri Dictionary,” after years of advocating to preserve the Wiradjuri language. Credit Adam Ferguson…
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Family inspires book on life Communitynews.com.au Perth, Western Australia, Australia 2016-01-12 Bryce Luff, Fremantle Gazette The idea of family has changed: Matthew Green and Naomi Kissiedu-Green with their children Savannah, Kobi and Ebony Green. Picture: Matt Jelonek An Atwell mother disheartened by a lack of books depicting multicultural families has decided to fill the gap…
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“Illicit Love” is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia.
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Mixed-race marriages a reflection of multicultural Blacktown The Daily Telegraph Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia 2015-12-01 Nick Houghton Joanne Vella, Editor Blacktown Advocate Quakers Hill one of Blacktown’s most livable suburbs Iranian migrant calls ‘multicultural tolerant’ Australia home WHEN Stephen Zahra went on a four-week holiday to Vietnam in 2006, little did he know…
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Annette Kellerman, Rose Quong and Merle Oberon were internationally successful ‘Australian’ performers of the first half of the twentieth century. Kellerman was a swimmer, diver, lecturer, and silent-film star, Quong an actor, lecturer and writer who forged a career in London and New York, and Oberon one of the most celebrated film stars of the…
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She was one of the most glamorous stars of the 1930s and ’40s. A screen siren with smouldering looks, exotic features and almond-shaped eyes. Merle Oberon was described as graceful and hauntingly beautiful.
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The Awesome Unordinary: Meet Marawa, The Celebrity Hula-Hooper Chic Rebellion 2015-09-22 Jazzi Johnson As children, we’re told to go after our dreams and not to let anyone deter us from whatever it may be… Well, can you imagine being 18 years old and telling your parents that you dream of hula-hooping for a living? That’s…
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Children of the Occupation: Japan’s Untold Story by Walter Hamilton (review) The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth Volume 7, Number 3, Fall 2014 pages 565-567 DOI: 10.1353/hcy.2014.0047 Owen Griffiths Hamilton, Walter, Children of the Occupation: Japan’s Untold Story (Sydney: NewSouth Books, 2012) What if you felt like you didn’t belong to the…