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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Racial awareness lacks “One Drop of Love” The Current St. Petersburg, Florida 2016-10-06 Mereysa Taylor, Co-Opinion Editor Cox DiGiovanni artfully narrates her own education about being mixed race in America in efforts to start a larger national dialogue. photo by Jeff Lorch Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni graced Eckerd with her one-woman performance about how race was…
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Jackie Kay announces makar’s tour of all the Scottish islands The Guardian 2016-10-07 Libby Brooks, Scotland Correspondent The poet has revealed plans for ‘an odyssey’ that will take in overlooked parts of Scotland and form the basis of a long poem about the country As the UK lurches towards xenophobia, it is a writer’s responsibility…
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“So, What Are You?” Columbia Daily Spectator New York, New York 2016-10-04 Alexandra Peebles and Eliza Solomon Members of the Mixed Heritage Society at a club meeting. (Jared Orellana / Staff Photographer) “For me, personally, thinking of myself as defined by race has never really worked, because I don’t fit in with the Asians, [and]…
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Where is the love: How tolerant is Canada of its interracial couples? The Globe and Mail 2016-10-03 Zosia Bielski Minelle Mahtani, an associate professor in human geography and journalism at the University of Toronto Scarborough, wrote the book Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality in Canada. (Jennifer Van Houten) Is love the last…
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An extraordinary life: Elizabeth Anionwu Nursing Standard 2016-10-02 Thelma Agnew, Commissioning Editor Elizabeth Anionwu Celebrated nurse Elizabeth Anionwu spent 9 years in care as a child, and her early life was marked by racism and the stigma of illegitimacy. In her new book she reveals how she found her Nigerian father, and why being an…
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This Historian Wants You To Know The Real Story Of Southern Food The Salt: What’s On Your Plate Weekend Edition Saturday National Public Radio 2016-10-01 Erika Beras Michael Twitty wants credit given to the enslaved African-Americans who were part of Southern cuisine’s creation. Here he is in period costume at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia estate.…
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What is “White”? #EmergingUS: Exploring race, immigration and the emerging American identity 2016-09-26 In an increasingly diverse country, White Americans are an emerging racial minority. #EmergingUS travelled to one of the Whitest states, Iowa, to ask Iowans what it means to be White in a changing America. Hosted by Jose Antonio Vargas, the founder of #EmergingUS…
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What are you? #EmergingUS: Exploring race, immigration and the emerging American identity 2016-09-26 How do you describe yourself if you’re mixed? “What are you?” is a common question posed to mixed race people, usually preceded by, “Where are you from, from?” In other words: I can’t tell what you are. In this #EmergingUS video, we explore the…