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: Arizona
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A true and deeply moving narrative of forbidden love during World War II and a shocking, hidden history of race on the home front
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In the late 1880s, Pleasant Valley, Arizona, descended into a nightmare of violence, murder, and mayhem. By the time the Pleasant Valley War was over, eighteen men were dead, four were wounded, and one was missing, never to be found. “Valley of the Guns” explores the reasons for the violence that engulfed the settlement, turning…
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Roicia Banks went to graduate school in Texas, and when she was there, people said to her, “Natives still are alive?” Natives, as in Native Americans. Laughing, she continued, “Are you kidding me? Yes, we’re alive.”
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50 years ago: Tucson couple broke down barriers to interracial marriage Arizona Capital Times 2009-11-01 Luige del Puerto Henry Oyama was beaming as he led his new bride from the altar of St. Augustine Cathedral in Tucson 50 years ago. She was wearing a traditional white wedding dress, and her left hand was grasping the…
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A new look at race and ethnicity in the borderlands
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Tries to Marry Quadroon Los Angeles Herald Volume 35, Number 31 (1907-11-02) page 2, column 6 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection By Associated Press YUMA, Ariz,, Nov. 1-M. G. Graff, aged 21 years, white, of Riverside, Cal., and Addle Burkhart, aged 20, were refused the office of marriage by Probate Judge Godfrey here today and…
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Through in-depth comparative analysis of interviews, we identified three major stressors impacting the identity development of the mixed Mexican participants: monoracism, cultural distance, and pressure to authenticate one’s ethnic or racial membership. These challenges precipitated feelings of confusion, isolation, and exclusion. Participants described negative experiences embedded in monoracism or discrimination and pressure from peers as…
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In Arizona, Censoring Questions About Race The New York Times 2012-04-01 Linda Martín Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy Hunter College, City University of New York In recent weeks, the state of Arizona has intensified its attack in its schools on an entire branch of study — critical race theory. Books and literature that, in the state’s…
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Replacing History With Fiction in Arizona The Nation 2012-02-08 Gary Younge In 1997 black America gained a new hero when Tiger Woods putted himself into history at the US Masters. Within a few weeks, it had lost him in an unlikely fashion—to a bespoke racial identity articulated on Oprah’s couch. Does it bother you…