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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Author: Steven
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Like [Shikha] Dalmia, I self-identify as belonging to more than one culture. I have fought for at least a decade with newspapers about how my national and ethnic origins should be described. I reject the hyphen (the term “hyphenated identity” was first struck by Horace Kallen in his 1915 essay “Democracy Versus the Melting Pot”),…
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Your Nationalism Can’t Contain Me The Nation 2016-08-25 Aminatta Forna Aminatta Forna. Photo and Illustration by Jonathan Ring. I’ve held three passports and claimed many identities, all at once. I am the future of citizenship. Those of us who call ourselves British and were of age in 1990 will remember the Conservative politician Norman Tebbit…
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Town founded by freed slaves celebrates 200 years USA Today 2016-07-09 Joey Garrison, Metro and Political Reporter The Tennessean, Nashville, Tennessee FREE HILL, Tenn. — Tucked away in the wooded hallows and ridges north of Celina, Tenn., in the Upper Cumberland region, freed slaves and later their descendants have lived here for two centuries. The…
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Recognizing the Need to Support Multiracial College Students Insight Into Diversity September 2016 Allen Kenneth Schaidle Roughly 2.4 percent of Americans identified as multiracial in the 2000 census. In 2010, that number increased to 2.9 percent, and the U.S. Census Bureau predicts that individuals identifying as multiracial will dramatically rise in the following decades. This increase…
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Q&A: Sophomore creates group to discuss mixed-race issues The Ithican Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York 2016-08-24 Celisa Calacal, Opinion Editor Sophomore Walt Martzen created the group IC Mixed, where students can discuss mixed-race issues, a topic Martzen believes is often missing from conversations on race and identity. Jade Cardichon/The Ithacan This semester, sophomore Walt Martzen…
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“Now, I have a black son in Baltimore,” the white police detective remembered thinking as he cradled his baby boy. Rachel L. Swarns, “‘I Have a Black Son in Baltimore’: Anxious New Parents and an Era of Unease,” The New York Times, August 23, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/us/i-have-a-black-son-in-baltimore-anxious-new-parents-and-an-era-of-unease.html.
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The mystery of the Melungeons The Economist 2016-08-24 VARDY, TENNESSEE AND BIG STONE GAP, VIRGINIA The story of an Appalachian people offers a timely parable of the nuanced history of race in America HEAD into Sneedville from the Clinch River, turn left at the courthouse and crawl up Newman’s Ridge. Do not be distracted by…
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The JewAsian Phenomenon: Raising Jewish-Asian Families JewishBoston: The Vibe of the Tribe 2016-08-10 Judy Bolton-Fasman, Culture Reporter A new book, as well as a conversation with its authors, sheds light on a growing segment of the Jewish population—Jewish-Asian children who are raised as Jews. Helen Kim and Noah Leavitt are the authors of “JewAsian: Race,…