Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Tag: University of North Carolina
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The Prisms of Passing: Reading beyond the Racial Binary in Twentieth-Century U.S. Passing Narratives
…I examine a subset of racial passing narratives written between 1890 and 1930 by African American activist-authors, some directly affiliated with the NAACP, who use the form to challenge racial hierarchies through the figure of the mulatta/o and his or her interactions with other racial and ethnic groups.
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Leona Amosah, the Founder of SWIRL, Talks Diversity and Identity Study Breaks 2016-12-28 Molly Flynn University of North Carolina, Charlotte Celebrating Students with Interracial Legacies (SWIRL) Amosah, a high-achieving senior at UNC Chapel Hill, created the organization to provide a community for students with multiracial and mixed-race identities. While many college students occupy their time…
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Let’s Talk About It: Multiracial Identity University of North Carolina, Charlotte Thursday, 2014-09-11, 12:30-13:30 EDT (Local TIme) Union 200 Led by the Multicultural Resource Center (MRC), the Let’s Talk It Discussion Series will focus on areas of diversity through prompts that spark discussion. These discussions are open to all and will focus on one area…
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ANTH 206 American Indian Societies (FOLK 230) University of North Carolina Summer 2013 Why do American Indians have casinos and reservations? Who is an Indian? How do Indians feel about American history? What kinds of futures do young Indians imagine for themselves and their tribes, and how can a non-Indian participate in and contribute to…
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PHIL 3830. Philosophy and Race University of North Carolina, Charlotte Cross-listed as AFRS 3830. This course both examines the role of the concept of race in the Western philosophical canon, and uses current philosophical texts and methods to examine Western discourses of race and racism. Issues such as whiteness, double consciousness, the black/white binary, Latino…
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The French colonial question and the disintegration of white supremacy in the Colony of Saint Domingue, 1789-1792 The University of North Carolina, Wilmington 2005 94 pages Molly M. Herrmann A Thesis Submitted to the University of North Carolina Wilmington in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts This thesis argues…
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Do You See Your Family?: An Examination of Racially Mixed Characters & Families in Children’s Picture Books Available in School Media Centers University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2002 37 pages Susan S. Lovett A Master’s paper submitted to the faculty of the School of Information and Library Science of the University of North Carolina…
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White Skin, White Masks: The Creole Woman and the Narrative of Racial Passing in Martinique and Louisiana University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2006 83 pages Michael James Rulon A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master…