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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Tirico will take over for Bob Costas as the host of the Winter Olympics next year but prefers to avoid talking about himself and his background.
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Thirty years ago, many academics considered the study of popular culture beneath them. Stuart Hall helped change that.
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“A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life,” written by historian ALLYSON HOBBS, made it to the 2017 summer reading lists of Harvard University Press and The Paris Review.
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I am a Nigerian/Austrian woman who is frequently mistaken for being fully white, due to my blonde hair and light eyes. For years I have heard people come up with phrases like “Oh now I see it’” when I pull out a picture of my black mother, whom I look very much like, leaving me…
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Liminality, hybridity and ‘Third Space:’ Bessie Head’s A question of power Neohelicon First Online: 2017-06-07 pages 1–17 DOI: 10.1007/s11059-017-0387-8 Sayyede Maryam Hosseini University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Hybridity has been a controversial issue not only in eugenic hypotheses of the nineteenth century but also in the postcolonial, cultural, linguistic, and geographical contexts. It can be seen as…
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Add something else to the list of things that seem simple but are actually complicated – the way someone reports their race or ethnicity.