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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How do you break a spell? How do you get over the grief of racial, gendered, and childhood injuries? Helen Oyeyemi’s novel Boy, Snow, Bird is not a black-and-white parable but a black-and-blue story. A bruising tale about miscegenation, passing, and beauty, this novel brings to life the idealization and wounding that haunt the American…
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@X: Making America White 200 Years Ago Public Books 2017-02-17 Brandon R. Byrd, Assistant Professor of History Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee In the latest edition of our anniversaries series, Brandon Byrd examines resistance to the American Colonization Society’s attempts to remove free blacks from the US. In January 1817, more than three thousand African Americans…
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The True Story of Pocahontas: Historical Myths Versus Sad Reality Indian Country Media Network 2017-02-16 Vincent Schilling AP Images A portrait of Pocahontas saving the life of John Smith with Father Wahunsenaca. Oral history from the descendants of Pocahontas dictate such a thing could never have happened. Pocahontas had a Native Husband and Native Child;…
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‘What are you?’ Varsity Cambridge, United Kingdom 2017-02-03 Gabrielle McGuinness Being mixed race defies binaries and confuses people. HILLARY Gabrielle McGuinness talks about being mixed race ‘So, ummmm…what are you?’ ‘I’m sorry, what?’ I say. ‘Like where are you from.’ ‘Oh! I’m British’, I’ll reply enthusiastically, trying to end the conversation there. ‘No, I mean…
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Jordan Peele on a Truly Terrifying Monster: Racism The New York Times 2017-02-16 Jason Zinoman Jordan Peele, who is making his directorial debut with the horror film “Get Out.” Credit Elizabeth Weinberg for The New York Times The sketch comedian takes on racial politics and the “liberal elite” in his debut feature, the horror movie…
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Black and French: ‘Mariannes Noires’ film explores the intersections of identity AfroPunk 2017-02-16 T. McLendon The African diaspora reaches to every corner of the earth and in the Western world Black identity is often formed within the context of white supremacy, white nationalism, and white majorities. For Black people learning, growing and living in France,…
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I’m A Mixed-Race Woman But Everyone Thinks I’m White — Which Hurts My Pride But Gives Me Privilege Bustle 2017-02-07 Danielle Campoamor Source: Courtesy of Danielle Campoamor “We can’t help you here,” was all the receptionist would tell me. I was 20 years old, living in Plainview, Texas, and trying to see a doctor —…
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‘To be black doesn’t have to mean anything more than what I already am’ The Philadelphia Inquirer 2016-02-06 Sofiya Ballin, Staff Writer Sonia Galiber, Director of Operations at Urban Creators Michael Bryant For Black History Month, we’re exploring history and identity through the lens of joy. Black joy is the ability to love and celebrate…