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: Polynesia
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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 Mixed Blood in Polynesia The Journal of the Polynesian Society Volume 58, Number 2 (June, 1949) pages 51-57 Ernest Beaglehole Victoria University College This paper was prepared as a contribution to a symposium on the position and problems of peoples of mixed blood in the Pacific area held during the Seventh Pacific Science Congress,…
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‘Our sea of islands’: migration and métissage in contemporary Polynesian writing International Journal of Francophone Studies Volume 11, Issue 4 (December 2008) pages 503-522 DOI: 10.1386/ijfs.11.4.503_1 Michelle Keown, Senior Lecturer of English Literature University of Edinburgh This article explores metaphors of oceanic migration in contemporary Polynesian writing, investigating the notion of a regional ‘Oceanic’ identity…