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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The Forgotten Era of Punjabi-Mexicans OZY 2016-01-13 Nick Fouriezos, Reporter/Researcher Like a good comedian, Mary Singh Rai picked from her three identities to best suit her listener. “When I’m with Americans, I like to think of myself as one,” the native of Yuba City, California, said in a 2012 interview. But in some ways, the…
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Hundreds gather over Maggie Walker statue controversy WWBT, NBC 12 Richmond, Virginia 2016-01-12 Ashley Monfort, Henrico Reporter RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) – Discussion about plans to build a statue of Maggie Walker in downtown Richmond drew a lot of opinions on both sides. Hundreds of residents gathered at the Richmond Public Library Tuesday to have their…
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On Being Mixed Race: I am Not a Percentage or a Fraction The Radical Notion 2016-01-12 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom I’ve noticed frequently when I’m having a conversation with someone about my racial identity, I start to feel frustrated by some of the language that comes up. To clarify my father is black…
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TS Eliot prize: poet Sarah Howe wins with ‘amazing’ debut The Guardian 2016-01-11 Mark Brown, Arts correspondent Sarah Howe, a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, could ‘change British poetry’. Photograph: Hayley Madden/FMcM/PA Judges hail daring use of form in a collection that examines poet’s joint British and Chinese heritage A new voice, who judges say…
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Book review: Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe The Scotsman: Scotland’s National Newspaper 2015-05-03 Roger Cox, Arts Editor Sarah Howe, Loop of Jade (London: Chatto & Windus, 2015) DOUBLE takes haunt poet Sarah Howe on her return to memory’s fragrant harbour, writes Roger Cox In her poem Sirens, Sarah Howe writes “I had one of…
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Both native and foreign: How being of mixed race affects Japanese students The Cavalier Daily Charlottesville, Virginia 2014-07-01 Emily Gorham I have now entered week five of my three month stay in Japan as an intern for the Ibaraki Christian University’s English department. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about what I’ve termed the…
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The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television by Zélie Asava (review) Black Camera Volume 7, Number 1, Fall 2015 (New Series) pages 267-270 Isabelle Le Corff Asava, Zélie, The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am…