Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Tag: Sheena Gardner

Still the tragic mulatto? Manufacturing multiracialization in magazine media, 1961–2011

2021-02-13

A content analysis of mainstream-, black-, and multiracial-oriented magazine articles demonstrates how varied media sources differently drew upon, resisted, and reproduced distinct understandings of multiracialism to reproduce the dominance of the “Tragic Mulatto” trope.
Profile: Sheena Gardner

2012-01-02

Profile: Sheena Gardner Our People Mississippi State University 2012-01-02 With a Japanese mother and an African-American father, Gardner has lived in Japan and Mississippi, experiencing a world of two cultures. Her dark skin complemented by her long, thick and curly hair distinguishes her from most other people almost everywhere she goes. Her background of growing…