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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Guest Shot: Vancouver viaducts removal clears way to honour Hogan’s Alley Vancouver Metro News 2016-11-10 Wayde Compton Vancouver writer Wayde Compton (Ayelet Tsabari/Submitted) Removal of the 1960s downtown infrastructure a chance to create a gathering space, an archive, for future black communities, argues Wayde Compton Last year, Vancouver City Council voted to take the Georgia…
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Blend it like Britain The Sunday Times The Times of London 2016-11-06 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown United colours: one in 10 people in this country are in a mixed relationship MORDECHAI MEIRI An acclaimed new movie, A United Kingdom, is set to shine a spotlight on mixed-race relationships — and how British women changed society’s attitude towards…
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A Mixed Race Feminist Blog Interview with Jamal Langley Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-11-29 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom Jamal Langley Interviewee Bio Hey. My name is Jamal Langley and I’m 22 years old. I aspire to be a public academic, which is an academic that creates knowledge that is of practical use in…
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Evolution of interracial marriage WSLS-TV 10 Roanoke, Virginia 2016-11-22 Brie Jackson, Anchor/Reporter ROANOKE (WSLS 10) – The story of one Virginia couple whose love for one another changed history is being shown on the big screen nationwide including the Grandin Theatre. “Loving” tells the story of Mildred and Richard Loving. He was white, she was…
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The Distinction Between Slavery and Race in U.S. History African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2016-11-27 Patrick Rael, Professor of History Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine The history of the Electoral College is receiving a lot of attention. Pieces like this one, which explores “the electoral college and its racist roots,” remind us how deeply race…
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A United Kingdom: Love In The Time Of The British Empire Media Diversified 2016-11-28 Shane Thomas Once the year in film began with #OscarsSoWhite, was it coincidence that 2016 is closing – and 2017 beginning – with a raft of movies featuring people of colour? We have Hidden Figures, Lion, Fences, and the magnificent Moonlight to…
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Our love is colour blind but we face prejudice – Northern Ireland mixed race couples tell of their experiences The Belfast Telegraph 2016-11-28 Kerry McKittrick With film A United Kingdom at cinemas now, a true story documenting the political fall-out from an inter-racial relationship in Britain and South Africa of the 1940s, Kerry McKittrick talks…
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When Carina Ray was an undergraduate at University of California at Santa Cruz in 1993, she was drawn to study abroad in Ghana because she wanted to connect with her Puerto Rican family’s African roots. The trip ended up being the beginning of a career dedicated to the study of what blackness means in West…
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This article examines two paintings from the antebellum period, “The Slave Market” (ca. 1859) by an unidentified artist and “The Freedom Ring” (1860) by Eastman Johnson, which involve the purchase of nearly white slaves, and attempts to delineate the motivation for presenting these images before the public. These paintings functioned much as slave narratives, and…