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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“I am a woman. I’m from the periphery. But I still have an advantage: I’m white” – The recognition of white privilege and racism Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2015-11-05 Source: Geledés Instituto da Mulher Negra, “Sou mulher. Suburbana. Mas ainda tô na vantagem: sou branca” Camila…
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At a place like Columbia, where how you identify can define the spaces you occupy and the people you interact with, being of mixed race presents an extra challenge. The balancing act between multiple cultures, communities, and colors can leave one wondering where they belong.
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An Insidious Way to Underrepresent Minorities The American Prospect 2015-11-05 Gary D. Bass, Executive Director Bauman Foundation, Washington, D.C. Adrien Schless-Meier, Program Associate Bauman Foundation, Washington, D.C. Cuts in U.S. Census funding threaten to produce an undercount of minorities and the poor and to reduce their share of federal aid. African Americans, Hispanics, and other…
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Koreans & Camptowns: Reflections of a Mixed-Race Korean Korean American Story 2015-11-04 Cerrissa Kim I’ve often stood out from the crowd, and not in a way that made me feel like a rock star—far from it. Growing up in a rural town filled with dairy cows and Caucasian farmers, and then in a bedroom community…
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Measuring Race And Ethnicity Across The Decades: 1790-2010 Random Samplings: The official blog of the U.S. Census Bureau United States Census Bureau 2015-11-02 Beverly M. Pratt Population Division Lindsay Hixson Population Division Nicholas A. Jones Population Division Over the years, the U.S. Census Bureau has collected information on race and ethnicity. The census form has…
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The day my daughter realized she isn’t white The Washington Post 2015-11-03 Lisa Papademetriou “Mama,” my 4-year-old daughter said. “Did you know that darks and lights didn’t used to be able to go to the same places?” “What?” I asked. It was bedtime, and I was tired. I wondered vaguely how Zara knew so much…
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Minelle Mahtani is an author, journalist and professor. She is an Associate Professor of Human Geography and Planning, and the Program in Journalism, at University of Toronto-Scarborough. She has written two books, “Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality” and “Global Mixed Race.”
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Williams: A positive among the attack ads in the Gecker-Sturtevant race Richmond Times-Dispatch Richmond, Virginia 2015-11-02 Michael Paul Williams, Columnist During the 2000 Republican primary in South Carolina, John McCain was the target of a whisper campaign that he’d fathered a black child out of wedlock. McCain, who in reality had an adopted Bangladeshi daughter,…
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Shaun King: I’ve been called the N-word since I was 14, but now those same people want me to be white The New York Daily News 2015-11-03 Shaun King Atlanta, Georgia Robin Rayne Nelson EDITOR’S NOTE: Our policy at the Daily News is to censor most racial pejoratives. We have made an exception in the…