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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Thomas Chatterton Williams, who belongs to the hip-hop generation of multiculturalism and diversity, is willing to risk being a throwback in his memoir/essay “Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race.”
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Violent Disruptions: Richard Wright and William Faulkner’s Racial Imaginations Harvard University September 2013 177 pages Linda Doris Mariah Chavers A dissertation presented to The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of African and African American Studies Violent Disruptions contends…
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In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation and its aftermath, Carlyle Van Thompson illumines the racialized sexual desire that reduces Black people to commodities for consumption. “Eating the Black Body” examines the often-sadistic forms of sexual violence during the period of slavery and its aftermath.
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Gender and the Neighborhood Location of Mixed-Race Couples Demography DOI: 10.1007/s13524-012-0158-0 Published Online: 2012-10-17 Richard Wright, Professor of Geography Dartmouth College Steven R. Holloway, Professor of Geography University of Georgia Mark Ellis, Professor of Geography University of Washington Gender asymmetry in mixed-race heterosexual partnerships and marriages is common. For instance, black men marry or partner…
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The Relationship Between Colour and Identity in the Literature of Nella Larsen and Richard Wright Lethbridge Undergraduate Research Journal Volume 3, Number 2 (June 2008) ISSN 1718-8482 Elisabeth Hudson King’s College London The fiction of Nella Larsen and Richard Wright explores the struggle of African-American men and women to forge an identity for themselves that…
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Where Black-White Couples Live Urban Geography Volume 32, Number 1 (2011-01-01 through 2011-02-14) pages 1-22 DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.32.1.1 Richard Wright, Professor of Geography Dartmouth College Mark Ellis, Professor of Geography University of Washington Steven Holloway, Professor of Geography University of Georgia This study analyzes where households headed by Black-White, mixed-race couples live in cities. Using 2000…
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Place, scale and the racial claims made for multiracial children in the 1990 US Census Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 32, Issue 3 (March 2009) pages 522 – 547 Steven R. Holloway, Professor of Geography University of Georgia Richard Wright, Orvil E. Dryfoos Professor of Geography and Public Affairs and Geography Department Chair Dartmouth College…