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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Mugabe raps Chinese men over mixed race babies Bulawayo24 2016-06-11 Thobekile Zhou Chinese men who are working on various projects in Zimbabwe have come under attack for not bringing along their wives. President Robert Mugabe claimed that this could lead them to prey on local girls… …He said the Chinese men end up leaving a…
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Juxtaposed, “Mexican Chef” and “Black Stars” speak volumes about the ongoing evolution of [Xenia] Rubios’ identity. While she identifies as Afro-Latina, she tells Colorlines that she does not identify as Black. “My family history is complicated, and I still don’t fully know the extent of it,” she says after describing her Black maternal great grandmother,…
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I’m Filipino too: Filipino-ness and Multiraciality gal-dem 2016-06-01 Amena Conopio-Ziard When I first participated in an online Austronesian community group, a member questioned me, in Tagalog, if I was Filipino. He thought by messaging me in Tagalog he could cleverly catch me out in an autonomous space he believed I shouldn’t be in… Read the…
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On her funky second album, “Black Terry Cat,” the genre-bender explores identity, police violence and the hidden labor of Latino/a restaurant workers.
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On Her Second Album, Xenia Rubinos Finds a New Language to Talk About Latinidad Remezcla 2016-06-01 Isabelia Herrera At a time when the political utility of the Afro-Latino label is as urgent as ever, it’s easy to forget that the journey to embrace that identity isn’t always immediate. Before recording her sophomore album Black Terry…
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Piers Morgan shot down after trying to justify comments about ‘racist’ Muhammad Ali during GMB The Daily Mirror London, England 2016-06-06 The host previously tweeted that Ali was responsible for a number of ‘inflammatory’ and ‘racist’ comments Piers Morgan was shot down as he discussed Muhammad Ali during Good Morning Britain. Over the weekend the…
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National Women’s History Museum presents Chinese American Women: A History of Resilience and Resistance National Women’s History Museum 2016-06-08 Joseph, Emily, Mamie, Frank, and Mary Tape. Tape v. Hurley Mary Tape was a biracial Chinese American woman who believed that her daughter, Mamie, should have the same access to education as white children in San…