Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity and Both/And Belonging
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The visual artist Lubaina Himid, best known for her paintings, installations and drawings depicting the African diaspora, won the Turner Prize on Tuesday night, making her the first nonwhite woman to be given the leading British contemporary art award.
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Life as a mixed gay man seems a singular experience. Who, what and where are the fluid foundations on which I’m constructed, construed and constrained. To some I am black but not Black, clearly not white or not Black enough. To others, I am an undecided shade of, well, I suppose you might say… Brown?
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“She’s not exotic. She’s not from a tribe in the Amazon. She’s American”: Gina Yashere on Meghan Markle’s engagement Channel 4 News London, United Kingdom 2017-11-28 Cathy Newman, Presenter Interview with author Afua Hirsch and Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff who is deputy editor of gal-dem – an online magazine written by women of colour. And from New…
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London play ‘Hashtag Lightie’ puts the spotlight on mixed-race identity
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A mixed-race woman is about to become the first non-white member of the British monarchy, and I am conflicted.
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All it took for Meghan Markle to “become” black was a proposal from a prince.
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PRINCE Harry and Meghan Markle’s engagement sparked a heated debate on racial identity on BBC’s Newsnight following the couple’s wedding announcement on Monday.
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I do wonder, speaking as a mixed-race girl myself, does this acceptance of colour into one of the world’s oldest monarchies mean that brown people have finally been acknowledged as being an integral part of the fabric of modern society?
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But Markle, whose mother is black and whose father is white, may not be the first mixed-race royal.