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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The double life of Injun Joe Maclean’s 1956-07-21 Dorothy Sangster [Katz] (1913-2011) The tourists at Algonquin Park think they’re meeting a real live redskin in a tribal tepee. Indian schmindian! He’s Tex Boyden, who reads the New Yorker, sips Martinis and makes his living selling beads to the white natives When Erl Boyden was five…
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Special Relationships: mixed-race couples in post-war Britain and the United States Women’s History Review Volume 26, 2017 – Issue 1: Revisioning the History of Girls and Women in Britain in the Long 1950s pages 110-129 DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2015.1123027 Clive Webb, Professor of Modern American History University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom This article uses a transatlantic…
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When the Serendipitously Named Lovings Fell in Love, Their World Fell Apart Smithsonian.com 2016-12-23 Christopher Wilson, Director of the African American History Program and Experience and Program Design Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. The new film captures the quiet essence of the couples’ powerful story, says Smithsonian scholar Christopher Wilson “My theory…
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Meet the black Americans going home to China Cable News Network (CNN) 2016-12-27 Yazhou Sun, Producer CNN International Paula Madison grew up knowing she was different. Born in the predominantly African-American neighborhood of Harlem, New York, she was raised by a single mother who looked Chinese. “When my mother opened the door and told me…
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The worst error in the history of science was undoubtedly classifying humans into the different races. Darren Curnoe, “The biggest mistake in the history of science,” The Conversation, December 19, 2016. http://theconversation.com/the-biggest-mistake-in-the-history-of-science-70575.