Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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The anthology, Being Biracial: Where Our Secret Worlds Collide, cites the experiences of twenty-four mixed-race authors and those in interracial partnerships of all ages and backgrounds, from all over the world.
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Jews in America struggled for decades to become white. Now we must give up whiteness to fight racism. The Washington Post 2015-09-22 Gil Steinlauf, Senior Rabbi Adas Israel Congregation, Washington, D.C. Let’s teach our children that we are, in fact, not white, but simply Jewish. Adapted from a Rosh Hashanah sermon delivered at Adas Israel…
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Identity and Acceptance in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia Uncovered Classics 2015-09-16 Melanie McFarland “Race is a complete illusion, make-believe,” observes a central character in Danzy Senna’s debut novel Caucasia. “It’s a costume. We all wear one.” Or, many. Over the course of our lives, those costumes change as we add and subtract details in reaction to…
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Too Latina To Be Black, Too Black To Be Latina The Huffington Post 2015-09-15 Aleichia Williams, Writer, Student, Advocate I can remember the first time I had a ‘race crisis.’ I was probably twelve or thirteen and I had just moved to the quiet state of North Carolina from my home state and city of…
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Trevor Noah Brings ‘A Different Perspective’ as Daily Show Host NBC News 2015-09-23 Amber Payne, Managing Editor of @NBCBLK Trevor Noah is poised to take The Daily Show throne next week and the South African comedian says his biracial and cultural background will impact and inform his perspective as host. “It just gives me a…
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The few old schoolmates who ran into him had to pretend they’d never met. He was often seen around town with one of his best friends. the Indian-born actor Sabu, an alliance that brings to mind the “arranged” Hollywood marriage of a closeted gay actor. Black novelist Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars, about a…
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The Awesome Unordinary: Meet Marawa, The Celebrity Hula-Hooper Chic Rebellion 2015-09-22 Jazzi Johnson As children, we’re told to go after our dreams and not to let anyone deter us from whatever it may be… Well, can you imagine being 18 years old and telling your parents that you dream of hula-hooping for a living? That’s…