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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However, there is a much lesser-known court case that dealt with interracial marriage many years before in New York City: Rhinelander v Rhinelander.
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“Speak, Okinawa” is my attempt to explain myself. Not just my own shame and internalized racism, but the long-standing systems and imperialistic origins that caused me to reject my mother and deny my heritage. “Speak, Okinawa” is my attempt at reconciliation.
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Paula Patton On The New Series ‘Sacrifice’ And Why She Doesn’t Identify As Biracial Clay Cane Show 2021-11-04 See: Rory Evans, “Paula Patton’s Precious Moments,” Women’s Health, January 27, 2010. https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a19985167/precious-movie/.
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The Passing Trailer Highlights That Race Is A Delusion Refinery29 2021-09-24 Nylah Burton Photo: Courtesy of Netflix. “Race is a delusion,” my friend sighed. We had been discussing passing, the act of someone from one race being accepted or perceived as a member of another, usually a marginalized race to white. After numerous anecdotes about…
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Personal Identity Equality and Racial Misrecognition: Review Essay of Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development Volume 34, Issue 1 (Spring 2021) pages 13-37 Taunya Lovell Banks, Jacob A. France Professor Emeritus of Equality Jurisprudence Francis King Carey School of Law University of Maryland Tanya K. Hernández…
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In this Essay, we examine the ways in which DNA ancestry tests may affect contemporary understandings of racial identity. We argue that these tests are poor proxies for race because they fail to reflect the social, cultural, relational, and experiential norms that shape identity. We consider three separate legal contexts in which these issues arise:…
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Ruth Negga has given the subject of identity a lot of thought.
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Our ongoing All Black Lives Matter event series is pleased to invite you to a film screening of Ines Johnson-Spain’s autobiographical documentary “Becoming Black”(2019).
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‘Passing’ — the original 1929 novel — is disturbingly brilliant Book Reviews National Public Radio 2021-11-10 Carole V. Bell The one thing most people know about Nella Larsen’s Passing is that it explores a peculiar kind of deception — being born into one marginalized racial category and slipping into another, for privilege, security, or power.…