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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Mixed: The many faces of the multiracial experience. The Stream Al Jazeera English 2016-01-20 Femi Oke, Host “What are you?” is an often used opening question that doesn’t always have a short and simple answer. For people with more than one racial background, identity is a lot more than one word; it’s a sentence, a…
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“We’ve sexualised or pornographied mixed race. It’s a very narrow line between exoticisation and sexualisation, fetishisms—where you turn all non-white people into people who exist simply into your own pleasure. She said that “a person who is half white is more “palatable” and acceptable in society – an idea, she believed, is steeped in racism…
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The presence of Eurasian images in fashion representations and their absence from finance representations draw attention to the historical origins, cultural trajectories and ambivalence of meaning associated with ‘raced’ and sexed representations. Although the inclusion of Asian and Eurasian women may be intended to offset their previous absence and secure a wider multicultural appeal, they…
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Deconstructing the Visual: The Diasporic Hybridity of Asian and Eurasian Female Images Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context Australian National University Issue 8, October 2002 45 paragraphs ISSN 1440 9151 Julie Matthews, Associate Professor and Director of Research Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia Introduction…