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: Myra Washington
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An exposition of a dynamic, multiracial-racial identity
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What Would It Mean To Have A ‘Hapa’ Bachelorette? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2016-03-13 Akemi Johnson On a recent episode of The Bachelor, the ABC dating reality show that ends its 20th season Monday night, contestant Caila Quinn brings Ben Higgins home to meet her interracial family. “Have…
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Interracial Intimacy: Hegemonic Construction of Asian American and Black Relationships on TV Medical Dramas Howard Journal of Communications Volume 23, Issue 3 (2012) pages 253-271 DOI: 10.1080/10646175.2012.695637 Myra Washington, Assistant Professor of Communication & Journalism University of New Mexico This article examines the representations of Black and Asian interracial relationships on prime-time television dramas, ER…
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Branding Blasians: Mixed Race Black/Asian Americans in the Celebrity Industrial Complex University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign May 2012 235 pages Myra Washington, Assistant Professor of Communication & Journalism University of New Mexico Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communications in the Graduate College of the University…
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More than a Metaphor: Blood as Boundary for Korean Biracial Identity NCA 95th Annual Convention Chicago Hilton & Towers Chicago, Illinois 2009-11-11 Myra Washington College of Media, Institute of Communications Research University of Illinois When Hines Ward was named MVP of Super Bowl XL, his Black and Korean biracial status became the touchstone for conversations…