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: Hong Kong
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Journey through time with professor and DJ Tao Leigh Goffe as she uncovers her story at the intersection of Black and Chinese culture in this month’s #Initiative29 episode.
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With over 50,000 Chinese-Jamaicans residing on the Caribbean island, how did such a unique community form?
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Twenty-six years ago, my Filipino mother left behind everything familiar to work abroad as a domestic helper. Around the same time, my British father also left his home country in search of better opportunities.
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This is the first study of its kind to provide such a broadly comparative and in-depth analysis of children and empire.
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Prize-winning Hong Kong-born poet Sarah Howe makes verse of city’s Basic Law South China Morning Post 2016-07-07 Clare Tyrrell-Morin Having played down her Chinese side while growing up and studying in the UK, Howe, now at Harvard, has turned to it again as she makes an ‘erasure poem’ out of Hong Kong’s mini-constitution We meet…
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There is a Chinese proverb that says: ‘It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.’ But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong Kong in search of her roots.
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Critical Mixed-Race In Transnational Perspective: The US, China, And Hong Kong, 1842-1943 Center for East Asian Studies Lathrop East Asia Library, Room 224 Stanford University 518 Memorial Way, Stanford, California Thursday, 2015-01-15, 16:15-17:30 PST (Local Time) Emma Teng, T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations Massachusetts Institute of Technology This paper will examine…
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown.