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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Afro-Chinese marriages boom in Guangzhou: but will it be ’til death do us part’? South China Morning Post Magazine South China Morning Post Hong Kong, China 2014-06-01 Jenni Marsh, Assistant Editor Jennifer Tsang and Eman Okonkwo at their wedding in Guangzhou in April. Photo: Jenni Marsh Guangzhou is witnessing many Afro-Chinese marriages, but the mainland’s…
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‘Mixed Blood’ Ecns.cn: The Official English-language website of China News Service 2014-06-05 To many, the US is no doubt a cultural melting pot as over the years people from various ethnic backgrounds have inhabited the land and collectively created an all new culture. Yet, all the way on the other side of the Earth, a…
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After Tiananmen Square, New Lives On A New Continent Tell Me More National Public Radio 2014-06-04 Michel Martin, Host After the democracy protests were crushed in 1989, many thought China would turn inward. Instead, a million Chinese citizens moved to Africa. Howard French discusses his book China’s Second Continent. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: I’m Michel Martin,…
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China in Africa The Leonard Lopate Show WNYC 93.9 FM New York 2014-06-04 Leonard Lopate, Host China’s presence in Africa has been growing and it is shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people. Howard French, prizewinning foreign correspondent and former New York Times bureau chief in Shanghai and in West and Central Africa,…
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China’s economic engagement in Africa can be measured in dollars — for instance, the $71 million airport expansion contract in Mali, funded by American foreign aid, that went to a Chinese construction firm. More remarkably, it can be measured in people: More than a million Chinese citizens have permanently moved to Africa, buying land, starting…
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An exciting, hugely revealing account of China’s burgeoning presence in Africa—a developing empire already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people.
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Michael David Kwan, Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China, reviewed by Yuxin Ma International Journal of China Studies Volume 4, Number 1, April 2013 pages 169-171 Yuxin Ma, Associate Professor of East Asian History University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky Michael David Kwan, Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood…
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Things That Must Not Be Forgotten is a beautifully written collection of Michael David Kwan’s childhood experiences in China during the 1930s and 1940s. Born into privilege, David saw his pampered life disintegrate as the Japanese overran China. His father, the wealthy administrator for China’s railroads, took a position in the pro-Japanese government to work…