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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“New People” is a paean to the psychosocial complexities of being racially mixed, and, as a result, color-lines, passing, and double-consciousness are everywhere.
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“When you are writing a novel, you are always trying to submerge yourself in a dream state, and New York was constantly waking me up from that state,” says Danzy Senna.
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He built his career on the systematic oppression of blacks and Native Americans, becoming one of the country’s most influential white supremacists. For more than three decades, from 1912 until 1946, Walter Ashby Plecker used his position as head of Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics to champion policies designed to protect what he considered a master…
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The alchemy of American music as it relates to Native Americans is such a voluminous subject that, inevitably, the fascinating “Rumble” can’t do it justice.
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Writers explore how and why the phenomenon of “passing” both shocks and fascinates.
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Danzy Senna, “New People, A Novel” (New York: Riverhead, 2017)
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In Passing: Arab American Poetry and the Politics of Race Ethnic Studies Review Volume 28, Issue 2 (2005) pages 17-36 Katherine Wardi-Zonna Gannon University, Erie, Pennsylvania Anissa Janine Wardi Chatham College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Racial passing has a long history in America. In fact, there are manifold reasons for passing, not the least of which is…
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From August 4th to 6th, 2017, artists and community organizers from the Twin Cities will host the first MidWest Mixed Conference, to explore themes connected to multiracial identities with art at the center.
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Growing up in NYC and being in circles of proud Afro-descendant brothers and sisters, I noticed that Dominicans were seen as prime examples of self-hate, race deniers and would often go as far as calling themselves Indio (Native Americans).