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: Mexicali
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But there’s something about this place that sets it apart in the borderlands. You might notice it first in the Chinese restaurants dotting the streets, in the elaborate pagoda that sits at the border with Calexico, or in the doorways downtown with subtle, sometimes faded, Chinese lettering.
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Racial Alterity in the Mestizo Nation Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 3 (October 2011) pages 331-359 Jason Oliver Chang, Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies University of Connecticut The eviction of Chinese cotton farmers from Mexicali, Baja California serves as a focal point to explore the racial boundaries of dominant…
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Chinos and Paisanos: Chinese Mexican Relations in the Borderlands Pacific Historical Review Volume 79, Number 1 (February 2010) Pages 50–85 DOI: 10.1525/phr.2010.79.1.50 Julian Lim Cornell University Using the testimonio of Manuel Lee Mancilla, a Chinese Mexican man born in Mexicali in 1921, this article explores the experiences of the Chinese in northern Mexico in the…