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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In an interview about the events last week that happened to my youngest son, I said that it takes an incident like this to make me truly realize that two of my sons are black. Betty Blake, “EXCLUSIVE: Race relations in America are ‘getting worse,’ says James Blake’s mother Betty, a white Briton who raised…
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Ten black composers whose works deserve to be heard more often The Guardian 2015-06-02 John Lewis English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912). Photograph: Unknown/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS The newly formed Chineke orchestra aims to include a work by a composer of ethnicity in each of its concert programmes. John Lewis looks at some of the neglected writers whose…
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Betty Blake, 80, is the mother of retired tennis star James Blake. Betty, who is white and grew up in England, talks about raising two sons who are black.
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Garifuna: The Young Black Latino Exodus You’ve Never Heard About Fusion 2014-06-04 Jasmine Garsd Honduran migrants passing through Mexico often carry only the bare essentials: cash, some clothes and a cell phone, if they can afford one. Gustavo Morales stands out among the migrant population here in Tequixquiac, a hot, dusty little town right outside…
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To Be Black And Boricua La Respuesta 2015-09-17 At this year’s Afro-Latino Festival of New York, La Respuesta teamed up with Project Bronx, the community-focused web series, for an exciting video collaboration. We spoke with festival attendees, artists, and vendors about a theme central to the festival’s focus. For the past 3 years, the Afro-Latino…
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Rachel/Racial Theory: Reverse Passing in the Curious Case of Rachel Dolezal Transition Magazine 2015-06-26 Damon Sajnani (AKA ProfessorD.us), Professor of African Cultural Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison Rachel Dolezal has done more than break the internet and fuel Black twitter and emcee cyphers with innumerable punchlines. She has provided the first high-profile contemporary case of…
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White or black? Sometimes it’s not so clear-cut StarNews Online Wilmington, North Carolina 2015-10-03 Beverly Smalls In June, as Rachel Dolezal of Spokane, Wash., confused members of the NAACP as well as her family, friends and the public about her choice to identify as an African-American, new conversations began. Dolezal was accused of being a…
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Bill de Blasio, Chirlane McCray are now empty nesters as daughter goes to college The New York Daily News 2015-09-17 Jennifer Fermino, City Hall Bureau Chief Chiara de Blasio, seen here with her mom, First Lady Chirlane McCray, left for college on Thursday. David Wexler/New York Daily News The city’s First Family is officially empty…