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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In a phone interview, Ms. Beetz discussed exploring new facets of Van, her own biracial identity and experiencing anxiety and impostor syndrome in Hollywood. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.
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(CNN)—Katherine Johnson, the woman who hand-calculated the trajectory for America’s first trip to space, turns 100 today.
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Is it enough to look like the artist if you do not recognize yourself in the art?
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A series of portraits of mixed-race people from around the world has cast new light on how we see ourselves
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The Page 99 Test is like some numerical sorcery from a Jorge Luis Borges story, mythical and unfathomable yet accurate all at the same time.
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Here’s how to navigate passing and belonging as a multiracial person.
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Despite the ongoing trauma I’ve experienced and the toxic things I’ve had to unlearn, I wouldn’t trade being Blasian for anything.
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Kirsten is the first African-Irish winner of the Rose of Tralee. She is the third mixed-race woman to be crowed Rose of Tralee, after 1998 Rose Luzveminda O’Sullivan and 2010 Rose Clare Kambamettu.
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As a mixed-race kid with free-form hair, Lisa Rosenberg believed learning to blow bubblegum bubbles would be her ticket to an idealized (white) American girlhood.
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Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut is an adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel “Passing,” a theme little seen since the likes of “Show Boat” and “Pinky”