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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"Mixed race"”.
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The Residential Stratification of Mixed-Race Couples
… little about how the growing numbers of mixed-race couples are faring in systems of residential stratification. My dissertation addresses this gap by investigating the extent to which mixed-race couples move into and out of neighborhoods defined by their levels of poverty. I also measure …
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Internalization of Race Messages Among Mixed Race Individuals
… theory qualitative methodology to explore mixed race individuals' experiences within specific racial socialization contexts of family, friends, community, and society, to identify messages received within these contexts. How messages influence both their understandings of mixed race …
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OBAMA'S PRESIDENTIAL (MIXED) RACE: FRAMING AND IDEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BLOGS AND NEWS
… brought a heightened awareness to the role of race and produced speculation about the idealized notion of the achievement of a post-racial United States. This dissertation examined mediated conversations on mixed race identity in response to some of the significant events in the Obama campaign …
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As above, so between: configuring Miss Lala as a mixed race subject
… Fernando” painting to recenter Lala’s racially mixed body as a crucial site for understanding how discourses of race and gender manifested then and continue to manifest. Using images, articles, and recollections of her act, Fei recovers Lala’s subjectivity by drawing on three main aspects of …
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Black Biracial Crossings: Mixed-Race Identity in Modern American Literature and Culture
… argues that America's obsession with mixed race, traced through representations, imaginings and theorization of mulattos or black/white mixed race people, intimates a secret longing for less confining racial scripts. Nella Larsen's Quicksand, Michelle Cliff's Abeng, Danzy Senna's …
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Branding Blasians: mixed race Black/Asian Americans in the celebrity industrial complex
… discourses rely on two overarching frames of mixed-race: mixed-race as uniquely new phenomenon and mixed race as resistant to dominant paradigms of race and racism. Both have been necessary for multiracial activists and the mixed race movement, and have served as the foundation for much of the …
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Housing integration : state efforts at promoting mixed-income and mixed-race housing
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1989.
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Mixed-race fantasies: abolitionist propaganda as spectacles of race in the nineteenth century
… sexual fantasies intricately linked with mixed-race women and the New Orleans slave market that these images would have conjured.
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A Host of Memories: Mixed Race Subjection and Asian American Performances Against Disavowal
… the concept of racial hosting to conceptualize mixed-raceness as an embodied palimpsest of past, present, and future. A Host of Memories: Mixed Race Subjection and Asian American Performances Against Disavowal argues for the importance of uncovering the disavowed, residual, and violent …
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Parenting processes in black and mixed race LGQ parent families: racial and queer socialization
… whether or how LGQ parent families negotiate race within their families, communities, and society. Most studies have used highly educated, White, middle and upper class, urban samples. However, in the United States, same-sex couples are more likely than heterosexual couples to be interracial, …
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Psychotherapy with an adolescent girl in a mixed-race stepfamily in post-apartheid South Africa
… to reflect on the therapy and determine whether race and cultural differences were the most important cause of family dysfunction. While race and culture emerged as an important stressor, pathology in the family system was found to be crucial in the therapy. Considerations for counsellors are …
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Embodying the Oppressed and the Oppressor: Critical Mixed Race Studies for Liberation and Social Justice Education
… on the educational and social experiences of mixed race Filipinx PEP (Pin@y Educational Partnerships) instructors in the San Francisco/Bay Area and the connection of these various, lived experiences to their teaching pedagogy and praxis in Ethnic Studies curriculum. The main purpose of this …
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Memories of race: Representations of mixed race people in girls' comic magazines in post-occupation Japan
"As the number of mixed race people grows in Japan, anxieties about miscegenation in today's context of intensified globalization continue to increase. Indeed, the multiracial reality has recently gotten attention and led to heightened discussions surrounding it in Japanese society, specifically, …
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An investigation into concepts of personhood and equity, with specific reference to mixed race women in post-compulsory education
Despite the prevalence of mixed race people in Britain and in Further Education, the study of mixed race identity remains an under-researched area, and little or no research appears to have been done on mixed race identity in relation to the Further Education sector. By bringing mixed race to the …
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Mixed Experiences: a study of the childhood narratives of mixed race people related to risks to their mental health and capacity for developing resilience
Background: The mixed race child population is growing proportionately faster than any other group. Whilst there is a body of research in this country, albeit small, that looks at the experiences of mixed race children, none of this research examines specifically the risks for mental health and the …
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Being Raced, Acting Racially: Multiracial Tribal College Students' Representations of Their Racial Identity Choices
… years, many studies have clearly documented that mixed-race people are currently engaged in the process of self validation (DaCosta. 2007; Dalmage, 2003; McQueen, 2002; Root, 1996 & 2001; Spencer, J, M., 1997; Spencer, R., 2006a; Thorton, 1992). There is not a lot of empirical research that …
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From exile to transcendence: racial mixture and the journey of revision in the works of Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer
… examines each author’s effort to represent the mixed-race character as a constant “process of becoming” (Hall, Questions of Identity 4). This study aims to convey the distinctiveness of the American mixed-race character in American literature and to provide a thorough reading of how this …
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On Becoming Myself: a Longitudinal, Multimodal Autoethnography on the Racial Identity Experience of a Multicultural Black American Woman (with Mixed-Race Ancestry) Living Through the Myth of a Colorblind “Post-Racial” Era by E. Natasha L. Smith
… some of the most polarizing topics of our time—race, culture, identity, politics, and the pressing need for advancements in higher education—with a confidence and courage shaped by lived experience, academic insight, and a deep commitment to truth. On Becoming Myself invites readers to engage …
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Households and Neighborhoods Among Free People of Color in New Orleans: A View from the Census, 1850-1860
… definitions. In particular this study focuses on mixed-race households to shed light on this segment of the free colored population that is mostly unstudied and generally misrepresented. This study also finds that immediately prior to the Civil War, mixed-race families, for no easily understood …
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