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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Every Family Has Its Secrets: Lacey Schwartz Connects with Film Forward Audiences in Taiwan Sundance Film Forward 2015-09-24 Lacey Schwartz, Director Little White Lie This Sundance Film Forward trip to Taiwan marked the Asian Premiere of Little White Lie. It also was my first time ever in Asia. The things that people seemed to say…
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Zun Lee’s Polaroid Archive Preserves African-American Self-Representation Photo District News 2015-08-26 Holly Hughes Photographer Zun Lee is dedicated to countering stereotypical, often negative views of the African-American family. While he was working on Father Figure, his book about African-American fathers, he stumbled on some old Polaroids that appeared to have fallen from a family photo…
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Jews in America struggled for decades to become white. Now we must give up whiteness to fight racism. The Washington Post 2015-09-22 Gil Steinlauf, Senior Rabbi Adas Israel Congregation, Washington, D.C. Let’s teach our children that we are, in fact, not white, but simply Jewish. Adapted from a Rosh Hashanah sermon delivered at Adas Israel…
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Identity and Acceptance in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia Uncovered Classics 2015-09-16 Melanie McFarland “Race is a complete illusion, make-believe,” observes a central character in Danzy Senna’s debut novel Caucasia. “It’s a costume. We all wear one.” Or, many. Over the course of our lives, those costumes change as we add and subtract details in reaction to…
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Too Latina To Be Black, Too Black To Be Latina The Huffington Post 2015-09-15 Aleichia Williams, Writer, Student, Advocate I can remember the first time I had a ‘race crisis.’ I was probably twelve or thirteen and I had just moved to the quiet state of North Carolina from my home state and city of…
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The Awesome Unordinary: Meet Marawa, The Celebrity Hula-Hooper Chic Rebellion 2015-09-22 Jazzi Johnson As children, we’re told to go after our dreams and not to let anyone deter us from whatever it may be… Well, can you imagine being 18 years old and telling your parents that you dream of hula-hooping for a living? That’s…
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The Passing Paradox: Writing, identity & publishing while black Fusion 2015-02-13 Stacia L. Brown A wife lives in constant fear that her husband will discover she’s not who she claims to be. A black aspiring architect is mistaken for an ethnicity other than his own and is offered a job he never would’ve accessed had…
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Here’s why Equal Protection may not protect everyone equally The Washington Post 2015-09-23 Lauren Sudeall Lucas, Assistant Professor of Law Georgia State University Intersectionality is the acknowledgment that different forms of identity-based discrimination can combine to give rise to unique brands of injustice. For example, although women may generally face certain challenges in the workplace…