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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Category: Articles
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I still have yet to uncover the full truth behind my heritage, but now feel that living in a racial no man’s land can actually be fun
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I always thought I was mixed race until someone at school called me black. That started me thinking about racial identity
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Each of my siblings’ names, skin, hair, and religious observances earned us different levels of privilege.
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With “Hopeless Fountain Kingdom,” the queen of New Americana is more outspoken than ever. Here, she covers everything from donating $100,000 to Planned Parenthood to the virtues of the dad bod.
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On Monday, more than a decade after her pretend marches in the woods, Cadet Askew, now 20, led the freshmen Army cadets for 12 miles — the first African-American woman to hold the highest student position at the United States Military Academy.
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But, in fact, he is the product of a short-lived and idealistic late-60’s marriage between a white former nun named Corinne Vincelette and a black architect named Calvin Felton. That is Leo Felton’s biological reality, despite his elaborate attempt, over the last decade, to rebel against it.
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In 1954, Jim Queen arrived at Montgomery Blair High School. The school was all white. He was not.