Tag: Silvia C. Bettez

  • Bettez to discuss experiences of mixed race women The Southern Illinoisan 2011-10-28 Christi Mathis, Staff Writer University Communications at SIU Carbondale CARBONDALE – Silvia C. Bettez will present “But Don’t Call Me White: Mixed Race Women Exposing Nuances of Privilege and Oppression Politics” on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.   The guest…

  • But Don’t Call Me White: Mixed Race Women Exposing Nuances of Privilege and Oppression Politics Sense Publishers September 2011 258 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-94-6091-692-2 Paperback ISBN 978-94-6091-691-5 Silvia Cristina Bettez, Assistant Professor of Cultural Foundations School of Education University of North Carolina, Greensboro Highlighting the words and experiences of 16 mixed race women (who have…

  • Mixed-race women’s experiences cannot be separated from the history of race and gender politics and contemporary racial debates. The history of hybridity is one in which bodies of mixed-race people have been observed, theorized about, and used as evidence in racial power debates, but their individual experiences are often disregarded. Women of mixed heritage, mixed…

  • How is it that people know when they belong and to what they belong? This question, about the epistemology of belonging, carries a particular complexity for mixed-race women.

  • Secret Agent Insiders to Whiteness: Mixed Race Women Negotiating Structure and Agency University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2007 325 pages Silvia Cristina Bettez, Assistant Professor Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations University of North Carolina, Greensboro A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial…