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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Biracial Identity, which do you identify with? The Spartan Daily: Serving San Jose State since 1934 San Jose, California 2015-04-09 Andrea Sandoval Identity is a complicated matter; everyone has one, but rarely are people aware of how they get one. The boundaries, symbols and language that make identity stand out are often unclear. What qualities…
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A real-life Lucious Lyon: The former slave who built a Beale Street “Empire” and transformed Memphis
A real-life Lucious Lyon: The former slave who built a Beale Street “Empire” and transformed Memphis Salon 2015-04-04 Preston Lauterbach Bob Church (Credit: University of Memphis Special Collections) Memphis — and music as we know it — wouldn’t be the same without Robert Church’s legacy of vice, virtue and power Depending on which critic or…
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Black and Yellow: Blasian Narratives Psychology Today 2015-04-07 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Ed.D. Crossing racial borders through storytelling Saturday night I went to an event called, Black and Yellow: Blasian Narratives, featuring students from Stanford joining a group from Morehouse and Spelman, two historically black colleges. The students presented both monologues and interactive storytelling. Their diversity was…
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How one man has made a mark on history in northeast N.C. The Outer Banks Voice 2015-04-04 Ed Beckley Marvin T. Jones has a passion for local heritage and is responsible for a half dozen historical markers in the area. Our region’s rich history is brought to the fore each time someone who passes a…
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LAURA KINA Blue Hawai’i The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture Brooklyn, New York 2015-04-02 Jonathan Goodman HAROLD B. LEMMERMAN GALLERY, NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY JANUARY 27 – MARCH 3, 2015 As an Asian-American painter of mixed background, Laura Kina creates work that is as culturally relevant as it is emotionally resonant.…
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Multiracial individuals report that the social pressure of having to “choose” one of their racial groups is a primary source of psychological conflict. Yet because of their ability to maneuver among their multiple identities, multiracials also adopt flexible cognitive strategies in dealing with their social environments—demonstrating a benefit to having multiple racial identities.
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How Europeans evolved white skin Science 2015-04-02 DOI: 10.1126/science.aab2435 Ann Gibbons, Contributing Correspondent ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI—Most of us think of Europe as the ancestral home of white people. But a new study shows that pale skin, as well as other traits such as tallness and the ability to digest milk as adults, arrived in most…
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Boutté play to explore questions of race and identity Illinois State University 2015-03-25 Eric Jome, Director of Media Relations When Duane Boutté, an assistant professor in the School of Theatre and Dance, read James Weldon Johnson’s novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, the story struck a familiar chord. It also served as further inspiration…