Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
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What Comes Naturally: A Racially Inclusive Look at Miscegenation Law Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 31, Number 3, 2010 pages 15-21 DOI: 10.1353/fro.2010.0020 Jacki Thompson Rand, Professor of History; American Indian and Native Studies University of Iowa In What Comes Naturally Peggy Pascoe interrogates the U.S. racial regime through a study of civil…
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Red, White, and Black: A Personal Essay on Interracial Marriage Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 29, Numbers 2 & 3, 2008 pages 51-58 DOI: 10.1353/fro.0.0021 Jacki Thompson Rand, Professor of History; American Indian and Native Studies University of Iowa About a month before my father died, a long-held question spilled out of my…
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Incidentally, the mixed-race woman of African and European descent has long functioned as a recognizable signifier for illicit sexuality and racial ambiguity in Western literary traditions. In both Europe and the Americas, the origins of the “mulatta” as cultural icon are linked to the erotic/exotic fantasies of a white (male) imagination. In early modern travel…
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The Eastmans and the Luhans: Interracial Marriage between White Women and Native American Men, 1875-1935 Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 23, Number 3 (2002) pages 29-54 DOI: 10.1353/fro.2003.0009 Margaret D. Jacobs, Professor of History & Director, Women’s and Gender Studies University of Nebraska, Lincoln At a lavish wedding and reception in New York…
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Miengun’s Children: Tales from a Mixed-Race Family Mrs. Jessie W. Hilton of Albuquerque, N.M., who summers at her cottage Mi-en-gun Walszh (Wolf’s Den) in Northport, was hostess at 5:00 o’clock Wednesday at Schuler’s of this city honoring Mrs. C. Stuker of Oak Park, III., house guest of her sister, Mrs. Basil Milliken of Oklahoma City,…
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Miscegenation and Race: A Roundtable on Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally [A Tribute] Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 31, Number 3, 2010 pages 1-5 E-ISSN: 1536-0334, Print ISSN: 0160-9009 Estelle B. Freedman, Edgar E. Robinson Professor of History Stanford University The following papers pay tribute to Peggy Pascoe’s [1954-2010] extraordinary book What Comes Naturally:…
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How is it that people know when they belong and to what they belong? This question, about the epistemology of belonging, carries a particular complexity for mixed-race women.
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In her seminal text Femininity, Susan Brownmiller identifies what can simply be termed the mythic proportions of the female body. Idealized, worshiped, ravaged, and reviled-the female body is forever being measured (usually against the unattainable paradigms of a male imagination) and found lacking. The myth of the female body’s inadequacy is crucial to my discussion…
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Fence Sitters, Switch Hitters, and Bi-Bi Girls: An Exploration of “Hapa” and Bisexual Identities Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 21, No. 1/2 (2000) Asian American Women pp. 171-180. Beverly Yuen Thompson, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies Texas Woman’s College I had been wondering about taking part in a student theatre project about being…