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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“We need to look deeper into our Africanness to understand ourselves,” says Dr. Marco Polo Hernández, a professor of Spanish and Afro-Hispanic studies at North Carolina Central University, in a recent phone interview. Mexico’s African heritage is not normally discussed or highlighted in conversation, or even education.
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Oxford, England–Belgium’s Catholic Church has apologized for its role in mistreating mixed-race people, who were born in colonial times to European fathers and African mothers and later taken away for adoption.
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A young, American-born man of Latino and Arab heritage decided to throw his hat in the political ring after working as a community activist and in the Obama administration.
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Being Biracial: Where Our Secret Worlds Collide, a Plea For Help From the Multiracial Community Multiracial Media: The Voice of the Multiracial Community 2017-04-23 Sarah Ratliff Bryony Sutherland Being Biracial: Where Our Secret Worlds Collide Eighten months ago I published my first non-ghostwritten book called Being Biracial: Where Our Secret Worlds Collide. Being Biracial is an…
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Stealth sisterhood: I look white, but I’m also black. And I don’t hate Rachel Dolezal Salon 2017-04-23 Alli Joseph A photo of the author with her mother. I am white, I am black, I am Native American. And I know what it’s like for people not to see all of who I am On a…
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Katie Chang isn’t taking her last year of college easy.
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I am a multiracial American; my mother is Okinawan, my father is German and Australian. My grandparents came from four different continents. I identify as both Asian and Caucasian, and although I am often identified on the outside as not quite white and not quite “ethnic,” I easily pass for white in a world obsessed…