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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NAACP Statement On Rachel Dolezal National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2015-06-12 Baltimore, MD – For 106 years, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has held a long and proud tradition of receiving support from people of all faiths, races, colors and creeds. NAACP Spokane Washington Branch President Rachel Dolezal…
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N.A.A.C.P. Leader Rachel Dolezal Posed as Black, Parents Say The New York Times 2015-06-12 Daniel Victor The parents of a civil rights activist in Spokane, Wash., say their daughter has misrepresented herself as black for years, spurring a growing discussion on social media about race and identity. Rachel Dolezal, 37, the president of the N.A.A.C.P.…
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‘Mislaid,’ by Nell Zink Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2015-06-04 Walter Kirn Agata Nowicka Zink, Nell, Mislaid: A Novel (New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2015). 242 pages. Toward the middle of Nell Zink’s “Mislaid,” a screwball comic novel of identity, Karen, a Southern white girl whose lesbian mother has raised her as black for complicated…
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How Census Race Categories Have Changed Over Time Pew Research Center 2015-06-10 Explore the different race, ethnicity and origin categories used in the U.S. decennial census, from the first one in 1790 to the latest count in 2010. The category names often changed in a reflection of current politics, science and public attitudes. For example,…
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Report Says Census Undercounts Mixed Race The New York Times 2015-06-11 Richard Pérez-Peña, National Desk The number of American adults with mixed-race backgrounds is three times what official census figures indicate, and the figure is rising fast, according to a survey released Thursday. But most do not call themselves multiracial. The Pew Research Center survey…
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Afro-Latinas: Finding A Place To Belong New Latina 2012-03-12 Tracy López, Editor-in-Chief Latinaish: Una Gringa Biena Latina Identity – It’s something every human being wrestles with at some time in their life – some more than others. For Afro-Latinas, self identifying can be especially difficult. The sense of ignored, unrecognized and invisible, is prevalent among…
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I’m Middle Eastern And White, And Those Are Not The Same Thing xoJane 2015-06-08 Erica Pishdadian It’s time to stop the confusion and give Middle Eastern and North African people our own racial classification. I recently moved to New York City, and in between my two favorite hobbies (climbing up to my fifth floor apartment…
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The Myth of a White Minority 2015-06-11 Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology City University of New York Graduate Center IN 2012, the Census Bureau announced that nonwhite births exceeded white births for the first time. In 2013, it noted that more whites were dying than were being born. In March, it projected that non-Hispanic…
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Multiracial in America Pew Research Center Washington, D.C. 2015-06-11 155 pages Principal Researchers Kim Parker, Director of Social Trends Research Rich Morin, Senior Editor Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Associate Director, Research Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Research Team Anna Brown, Research Assistant D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer Richard Fry, Senior Researcher Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, Research Associate…
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Allyson Hobbs Morris Educational Foundation Morristown, New Jersey 2015-05-04 Each issue, we are pleased to circle back with one of our Morristown High School esteemed alumni and catch up. This spring we caught up with Allyson Hobbs, MHS Class of ’93… Allyson Hobbs, MHS Class of 1993, Author & Assistant Professor at Stanford University After…