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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A Personal Look at The Psychology and History of Racism
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Longtown was established nearly 200 years ago in what is now Greenville. The settlement grew into a thriving mixed-race community and a major stop on the Underground Railroad.
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As a descendant of slaves and slaveholders, I embody uncomfortable incongruities — just as America does. In “Notes on the State of Virginia,” Thomas Jefferson wrote with anguish about the risks of amalgamation, or interracial sex, to a new nation. Whites were “stained” when they mixed with blacks, whom he speculated were inferior in mind…
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, by Allyson Hobbs The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research Volume 47, 2017 – Issue 2: After Madiba: Black Studies in South Africa Pages 73-76 DOI: 10.1080/00064246.2017.1295355 Fabian Eggers, MA candidate of North American Studies John F. Kennedy Institute at Freie Universität,…
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Alfred Calma was 4 years old when the police snatched him from his mother, never to live with her again. Joyce Napurrula-Schroeder was not quite 2 when it happened to her. Luke Morcom was a newborn, barely a week on this earth.
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Jim Sheridan is working on the documentary about his rise to stardom.
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The world of academic philosophy is ordinarily a rather esoteric one. But Rebecca Tuvel’s article “In Defense of Transracialism,” published in the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia this spring, has generated a broad public discussion.
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Just because I’m biracial, that doesn’t mean I didn’t put in the work