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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At age 3, Shane McCrae was taken from his Black father by his white grandparents — a rupture he explores in a new memoir.
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One of the first Black superstars in classical music, he awed audiences with his charisma and his technical powers.
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Herb Harris Explores How His Grandparents’ Defied Racial Categorization
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Race had been a source of confusion throughout my childhood, and I wondered if the original purpose of Topsy-Turvy dolls might have been to help mixed-race children understand their identities. As an object of play, the dolls might have enabled these children to grasp the paradox of who they were and understand their relationships with…
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Georgia Louise Harris Brown (June 12, 1918 – September 21, 1999) Pioneering Women of American Architecture October 2017 Anat Falbel University of Campinas, Brazil Roberta Washington, Principal Roberta Washington Architects, New York, New York Georgia Louise Harris Brown (1918–1999), a pioneering African American architect practicing in Chicago and Brazil from the 1940s to the 1990s,…
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This article utilizes Yoon Mi-rae, who is half-Black and half-Korean, as a significant text to explore how race plays a role in Korean society and how Blackness, Koreanness, and han intersect in the K-hip hop scene. Utilizing the concept of community cultural wealth, interest convergence principle, and Koreanness, the study analyzes how Yoon Mi-rae’s “Black…
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To this day, you will find no official data on persons like me of mixed Latino and non-Latino identity. I’ve coined the term “LOMA” for Latinx of Mixed Ancestry to describe this community. Some studies suggest that as many as a quarter of Latino-identified people in this country could actually identify as LOMA if given…
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Does this fight or fuel racism?