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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“Asian Latinos” and the U.S. Census AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community Volume 10, Number 2 (2012) pages 119-138 DOI: 10.17953/appc.10.2.m04004632k7n353l Robert Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Kevin Escudero, Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Professor Emerita Department of…
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs (review) [Cutter] African American Review Volume 48, Number 3, Fall 2015 pages 381-383 Martha J. Cutter, Professor of English and Africana Studies University of Connecticut Hobbs, Allyson, A Chosen Exile: History of Racial Passing in American Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,…
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The Racial Discrimination Embedded in Modern Medicine Newsweek 2015-10-20 Lindsey Konkel Minutes separated Are’Yana Hill from death as she struggled to breathe in the hallway of her San Francisco high school. The 18-year-old had lived with asthma attacks since before she could talk, and on that day, in April 2014, she could not speak. She…
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This is not another essay about how hard it is to be light skinned in a dark man’s world. Why? Because the suggestion that this is a dark man’s world is ridiculous. Unless you’ve had your head up your butt, we quite clearly do not live in a version of the universe where overall it…
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America’s forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South
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New Film Shows Misty Copeland’s Journey as a Black Ballerina NBC News 2015-09-30 Maya Chung The 2015 Urbanworld Festival closed out on Saturday night with the highly anticipated documentary “A Ballerina’s Tale,” which details Misty Copeland’s journey to become a principal ballerina. The film festival, founded in 1997, is a five-day event that showcases narrative…
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New ‘Hysterical’ Web Series Explores Single Life for 40-Something Women of Color Chic Rebellion 2015-10-01 Elayne Fluker, Chief Executive Officer “You know, marriage is hard. I’m not always happy–the shit gets hard.” So goes a line by Rain Pryor to actress Esther Friedman in Friedman’s new web series, Hysterical Historical Hillary–which screens at the Bushwick…
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And Korla Pandit had reason to never speak. Speaking might have given away his secret…