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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When Anita Florence Hemmings applied to attend Vassar College in upstate New York in 1893, she did not disclose her racial identity to the school. She passed as a white student for years before eventually being outed as a black woman shortly before graduation, after her white roommate’s family hired a private detective to investigate…
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Hello World: How Nike Sold Tiger Woods The Margins (After 1989) Asian American Writer’s Workshop 2012-08-02 Hiram Perez, Assistant Professor of English Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York How did a multinational corporation like Nike appeal to diverse markets without violating the principle of colorblindness that became increasingly and insidiously sacrosanct in the U.S. in the…
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How to Rehabilitate a Mulatto: The Iconography of Tiger Woods Chapter in East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (pages 222-245) New York University Press May 2005 382 pages 29 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780814719626 Paperback ISBN: 9780814719633 Edited By: Shilpa Davé, Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Assistant Professor of Media Studies and American Studies…
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Two or Three Spectacular Mulatas and the Queer Pleasures of Overidentification Camera Obscura Volume 23, Number 1 67 (2008) pages 113-143 DOI: 10.1215/02705346-2007-026 Hiram Perez, Assistant professor of English Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Building on feminist and queer scholarship on the relationship of film spectatorship to subjectivity, this essay conjectures subaltern spectatorships of the…