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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Mixed: The many faces of the multiracial experience. The Stream Al Jazeera English 2016-01-20 Femi Oke, Host “What are you?” is an often used opening question that doesn’t always have a short and simple answer. For people with more than one racial background, identity is a lot more than one word; it’s a sentence, a…
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This piece is a very personal piece for me and does not intend to put over any specific political line; it does not intend to educate, but I hope it will make people think.
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Passion – Blackwomen’s Creativity: an interview with Maud Sulter Spare Rib Magazine Issue 220 (February 1991) pages 6-8 Ardentia Verba An Interview with Maud Suiter In 1977 Maud Suiter stepped on a train from Glasgow to London and began her current journey into the interior of Blackwomen’s Creativity. She didn’t know at the time that…
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Two Systems or A Reading Towards New Work The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (Sherr Room) Cambridge, Massachusetts 2015-10-28 (Published 2015-11-06) Sarah Howe, the 2015–2016 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, presents “Two Systems,” a new sequence of poems in which she explores the historical encounter between China and the West.
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“Of all the places I’ve lived, there’s only one where I felt uncomfortable being black. It was where I am from: the United States.” —Nicholas Casey Nicholas Casey, “Moving to Venezuela, a Land in Turmoil: Q&A: Race and Racism in Venezuela,” The New York Times, January 21, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/reporters-notebook/moving-to-venezuela/race-racism.
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Misc.: How to Really Kill Affirmative Action or Why Abigail Fisher Ain’t Rachel Dolezol The Multiracial Advocate 2016-01-20 Thomas Lopez, President Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC) Abigail Fisher was a mediocre high school student applying to the University of Texas (UT). She couldn’t get in based on her grades and test scores alone so…
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Oregon’s Portland Community College to mark ‘Whiteness History Month’ NBC News 2016-01-21 Shamar Walters and Cassandra Vinograd First comes Black History Month and then … Whiteness History Month? A community college in Oregon has set aside April to look at “whiteness” — but not to celebrate what it’s described as a social construct which leads…
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Moving to Venezuela, a Land in Turmoil The New York Times 2016-01-21 Nicholas Casey, a New York Times correspondent, is sharing moments from his first 30 days living in Caracas, a city in the midst of great tumult and change. Follow Nick on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Q&A: Race and Racism in Venezuela Q. I’d…
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Oklahoma cop gets life for sex crimes against the poor USA Today 2016-01-21 Melanie Eversley, Breaking News Reporter Former officer Daniel Holtzclaw was sentenced to 263 years in prison after he was convicted in December of 18 counts, including first-degree rape. A former Oklahoma City police officer was sentenced Thursday to spend the rest of…
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How I Learned about the One-Drop Rule: Mark Fanshen Cox 2016-01-20 One Drop of Love is a multimedia one-woman show exploring the intersections of race, class, gender, justice and LOVE. For more information, click here.