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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The Carrie Bourassa story is yet another example of a kind of cultural Munchausen Syndrome The Globe and Mail Toronto, Canada 2021-11-09 Drew Hayden Taylor Carrie Bourassa, a University of Saskatchewan professor, told the world her ancestry was Métis, Anishnawbe and Tlingit. But she has been unable to verify her ancestry following reports questioning those…
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The pervasive media and public interest in the Dolezal story confirms the ongoing fascination with racial passing within and beyond the United States, a popular interest that has its counterpart in the proliferation of academic studies of the subject that have been published in the past twenty years. The scholarly attention paid to racial passing…
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Race Off: The fantasy of race transformation The Yale Review 2021-09-27 Namwali Serpell, Professor of English Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Genevieve Gaignard, People Make the World Go Round, 2019. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer. Courtesy the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles. This essay was first delivered in September 2021 as the Finzi-Contini Lecture at Yale University’s Whitney…
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Unlike gender inequality, racial inequality primarily accumulates across generations. Transracial identification undermines collective reckoning with that injustice.
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That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing University of North Carolina Press October 2020 242 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 10 halftones, 1 fig Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-5957-2 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-5956-5 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-5958-9 Julia S. Charles, Assistant Professor of English Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S.…
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Because She Can: The Unbearable Whiteness of Jessie The Crisis 2020-09-09 TaRessa Stovall I’m a mixed (Black, Jewish, Native American) boomer, very light-skinned and so racially ambiguous looking that most people question, assume and try to challenge my racial identity. My copper-toned Black father hated that I wouldn’t exploit my appearance to “be anything.” My…
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White supremacy rears its head again in another form of passing, as men and women who have grown up as white children in white families have taken to masquerading as Black adults in order to achieve personal success as race warriors. Jessica Krug and Rachel Dolezal, two sisters-in-deceit, both manipulated their ways to success by…
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We all know what identity theft is, in a world filled with cyber crimes. We’ve all watched horror films with body snatchers as the main villains. Things become far more complicated when we address the issue of humans who, for a host of warped reasons, assume a false racial or ethnic identity.