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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#262: Researching and Publishing on Multiracial Topics The 28th Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) Washington Hilton 1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20009 2015-05-26 through 2015-05-30 Wednesday, 2015-05-27, 15:30-17:30 EDT (Local Time) Columbia 3, Terrace Level From the politics of labeling and counting mixed race students in research,…
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One Drop of Love: A Multimedia Solo Performance on Racial Identity by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni at University of Maryland University of Maryland, College Park The Stamp (Adele H. Stamp Student Union) [Directions] Atrium Room Friday, 2013-03-29, 17:00-19:30 EDT (Local Time) Sponsored by the Multiracial Biracial Student Association (MBSA), Office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy…
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The Chowan Discovery Group: Documenting the Mixed-Race History of North Carolina’s “Winton Triangle”
The Chowan Discovery Group: Documenting the Mixed-Race History of North Carolina’s “Winton Triangle” Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2013-03-20 Vikki Bynum, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Here’s another region of the South with a fascinating history of mixed-race ancestry. I discovered the Chowan Discovery Group after Steven Riley, creator…
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While multiracial identities give the appearance of a deconstruction of a social order based on race, I suggest otherwise. For example, many multiracial Americans of African/European descent understandably attempt to claim and reassert their non-African ancestry; reminding us how they are “a little French, a little Scottish, Italian, etc.,” few of us stop to ponder…
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Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781594202827. Steven F. Riley 2011-02-28 “This is the decade of Tiger Woods and Barack Obama, where we talked about race combinations,” Robert Groves, director of the federal agency, said…
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Winton Triangle history in Chicago! Chowan Discovery Group 2012-11-06 Marvin Jones In Chicago, the CDG got the opportunity to introduce our history to a national audience of academics and students at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul University in Chicago. Writer Lars Adams, of the Chowanoke Descendants website, presented the history of the…
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My Day at the 5th Annual Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival Gino Michael Pellegrini: Education, Amalgamation, Race, Class & Solidarity 2012-10-14 Gino Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California Saturday morning, June 16, 2012: I take the Metro from North Hollywood to the Tokyo Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles.…
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Don’t Pass on Context: The Importance of Academic Discourses in Contemporary Discussions on the Multiracial Experience Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival Japanese American National Museum Los Angeles, California 2011-06-11 Steven F. Riley The following is the slightly modified text from my opening remarks. As we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the…