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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Tag: University of Pittsburgh
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Multiracial in the Workplace: A New Kind of Discrimination? Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Fall 2015 Speaker Series presents: “Multiracial in the Workplace: A New Kind of Discrimination?” University of Pittsburgh 2015-12-10 Tanya Hernandez, Professor of Law Fordham University Welcome by: Larry Davis, Dean, Donald M. Henderson Professor, and Director Center for Race and Social…
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Law is still black & white, not multiracial, Fordham prof says University Times: The Faculty & Staff Newspaper Since 1968 University of Pittsburgh 2016-01-07 Marty Levine Despite the fact that more people are identifying themselves as multiracial on the U.S. census, decisions in discrimination cases involving multiracial defendants still are primarily based on the presence…
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“Japanese in the Samba”: Japanese Brazilian Musical Citizenship, Racial Consciousness, and Transnational Migration University of Pittsburgh 2008 213 pages Shanna Lorenz, Assistant Professor of Music Occidental College, Los Angeles, California Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy his doctoral dissertation…
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Cuban Color Classification and Identity Negotiation: Old Terms in a New World University of Pittsburgh 2004 246 pages Shawn Alfonso Wells Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Pittsburgh in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy This thesis analyzes how the Cuban Revolution’s transnational discourse on blackness…
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“Not Tainted by the Past”: Re-Constructions and Negotiations of Coloured Identities Among University Coloured Students in Post- Apartheid South Africa University of Pittsburgh 2013 152 pages Sardana Nikolaeva The South African coloured identity is a profoundly complex construction that, on the one hand, is interpreted as an ambiguous and ‘in-between’ identity and, on the other…
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Not Tainted by the Past: Re-conceptualization and Politics of Coloured Identities among University Coloured Student Activists in Post-Apartheid South Africa Achieving Sustainable Development in Africa International Conference at the University of Pittsburgh 2012-03-29 through 2012-03-30 Sardana Nikolaeva School of Education University of Pittsburgh The colonial apartheid South Africa, its hierarchical racial classification and its consequences…