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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Black Germans and the Holocaust International Slavery Museum Liverpool, England, United Kingdom 2015-01-14 The International Slavery Museum will be marking Holocaust Memorial Day on Tuesday 27 January with a special free guest lecture by Professor Eve Rosenhaft from the University of Liverpool, who will be talking about the experiences of the Black German community during…
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The Life and Death of Davis Knight after State vs. Knight (1948) Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2009-04-08 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Davis Knight, the great-grandson of the infamous “Free State of Jones” guerrilla, Newt Knight, became the centerpiece of his own drama some 25 years…
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From Behind the Counter: Poems From a Rural Jamaican Experience Ian Randle Publishers 2000-09-05 216 pages 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-9768123879 Easton Lee Photographs by Owen Minott Easton Lee was born to a Chinese father and a Jamaican mother of mixed racial heritage in the 1930s at Wait-a-bit, Trelawny, Jamaica. The…
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Dear Hollywood: Let’s Stop Making Movies Like “Black or White” Forbes 2015-01-30 Rebecca Theodore Halfway through the family drama “Black Or White,” Jeremiah Jeffers (Anthony Mackie) an Ivy-League educated lawyer, chastises his drug addict nephew Reggie (Andre Holland) in the midst of helping him regain custody of his daughter by asking, “Why do you have…
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The gains and losses of racial “code switching” KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco, California 2015-01-27 Hana Baba, News Reporter/Host On today’s episode of “Crosscurrents,” we are talking about identity. We have heard how people, whether intentionally or not, can “pass” as another race, just by the sound of their voice. Passing can also be a…