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: Literature and Medicine
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How Culture and Science Make Race “Genetic”: Motives and Strategies for Discrete Categorization of the Continuous and Heterogeneous Literature and Medicine Volume 26, Number 1 (Spring 2007) pages 240–268 DOI: 10.1353/lm.2008.0000 Celeste Condit, Distinguished Research Professor University of Georgia Scientists, medical personnel, and others have recently re-asserted the equivalence of human genetic variation and social…
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Racial Aura: Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art in a Biotechnological Age Literature and Medicine Volume 26, Number 1 (Spring 2007) Special Issue: Genomics in Literature, Visual Arts, and Culture pages 207-239 DOI: 10.1353/lm.2008.0011 Alys Eve Weinbaum, Associate Professor of English University of Washington [T]he meaning of racial difference is itself being changed, as…