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: Maile Arvin
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From their earliest encounters with indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be, racially, almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In “Possessing Polynesians” Maile Arvin analyzes this racializing history within the context of settler colonialism across Polynesia,…
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The link between “tourism” and “settler colonialism” in Hawai’i Matador Network 2015-07-29 Bani Amor Maile Arvin is a Native Hawaiian feminist scholar who writes about Native feminist theories, settler colonialism, decolonization, and race and science in Hawai‘i and the broader Pacific. She is currently a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnic Studies at…
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DANCE/CHANGE: The Mixed-Race Polynesian Body in Settler and Indigenous Performance University of California, Riverside 900 University Avenue Riverside, California 92521 Athletics & Dance Building Dance Studio Theatre, ATHD 102 Tuesday, 2014-10-21, 16:10-18-00 PDT (Local Time) Maile Arvin, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Ethnic Studies University of California, Riverside The Mixed-Race Polynesian Body in Settler…
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Say Hapa, With Care AAPI Voices: Amplifying the voices of Asian Pacific America. 2014-06-18 Sharon Chang, Guest Columnist What does Hapa mean? One way to know is to look at the ways in which the word is used. It’s a “Hawaiian word for ‘mixed-race’,” says Hapa Kitchen Supper Club, “coined to refer to people of…
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Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society June 2014 (2014-06-02) Maile Arvin, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Riverside I confess: I avoided watching the 2011 Oscar award-winning movie The Descendants (directed by the acclaimed Alexander Payne of Sideways and Nebraska, starring George Clooney) for…
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Pacifically Possessed: Scientific Production and Native Hawaiian Critique of the “Almost White” Polynesian Race University of California, San Diego 2013 320 pages Maile Renee Arvin A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Ethnic Studies This dissertation analyzes how scientific knowledge has represented the Polynesian race as…
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Hawai’i’s Interracial History, Culture, and Tradition: Construction and Deconstruction (Sawyer Seminar VIII) University of Southern California, University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library East Asian Seminar Room (110C) Friday, 2014-02-28, 09:00-13:00 PST (Local Time) How are islands connectors of flows of peoples and culture? What types of constructions and deconstructions of race and identity have influenced…