Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • This is why “mixed” is an identifier I do not use.

    Centering ourselves means using our pain to erase the pain of others. It sends the message that light-skinned suffering—on offshoot of white fragility—is in greater need of addressing than actual anti-Blackness, and the white supremacy that generates it. This is why “mixed” is an identifier I do not use. It is a term which privileges…

  • White Nonsense

    White Nonsense Vice News 2016-10-09 Elspeth Reeve Alt-right trolls are arguing over genetic tests they think “prove” their whiteness Andrew remembers feeling a “tinge of apprehension” when he logged on to 23andMe. Several weeks earlier, he’d spit into a tube and mailed it to the genetic testing company, which analyzes customers’ DNA to estimate where…

  • Racial identity is a biological nonsense, says Reith lecturer

    Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah says race and nationality are social inventions being used to cause deadly divisions

  • Black People Have Every Right to Distrust You For Being Light Skinned

    My dad is Black and from the US. My mom is Scottish-Irish. I came out very light skinned. For most of my early childhood I was universally read as white. It wasn’t until I hit puberty and entered into a largely Puerto Rican middle school that I started being seen as Latino—a shock both because…

  • The Pieces of Zadie Smith

    The Pieces of Zadie Smith The New York Times Style Magazine 2016-10-17 Jeffrey Eugenides Briton, Jamaican, mother, writer, female: on becoming whole with one of this generation’s most vital literary voices. ZADIE SMITH IS THERE and not there. In the streaming image on my laptop she sits at a desk, backlit in her book-lined office,…

  • Black Lives Matter

    Black Lives Matter Wonderland 2016-10-11 As the Black Lives Matter conversation continues to unfold the world over (BLM crowds stormed London City Airport as Wonderland went to press), we asked Emma Dabari, a teaching fellow at School of African Studies, to organise a debate between a few of London’s most independently-minded young creatives. Emma Dabiri,…

  • Too Black for Mexico — Cécile Smetana Photographs the Afro-Mexicans Stigmatized for the Color of Their Skin

    Too Black for Mexico — Cécile Smetana Photographs the Afro-Mexicans Stigmatized for the Color of Their Skin FotoRoom 2016-10-10 Photos by Cécile Smetana Baudier 31 year-old French-Danish photographer Cécile Smetana Baudier discusses Diaspora: Costa Chica, a subjective reportage from a coastal area of Mexico where Cécile lived with a minority ethnic group: the Mexicans of African descent. Her…

  • In Depth with Gerald Horne

    Author Gerald Horne talked about his life and career and responded to viewer comments and questions. His most recent book is “Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary.”

  • Speaker Series: Memory, History, Race, and America’s National Parks

    Speaker Series: Memory, History, Race, and America’s National Parks Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, New York 10037 Tuesday, 2016-10-18, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) As a young girl Lauret Savoy developed a deeply personal connection to the American land, visiting numerous national parks with her parents. But as she traversed…

  • Federal officials may revamp how Americans identify race, ethnicity on census and other forms

    Federal officials may revamp how Americans identify race, ethnicity on census and other forms Pew Research Center 2016-10-04 D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer/Editor Federal officials are moving ahead with the most important potential changes in two decades in how the government asks Americans about their racial and Hispanic identity. They include combining separate race and Hispanic…