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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“Please select one”: Growing up with a multiracial identity The Seattle Globalist 2016-11-31 Jaya Duckworth, Senior Garfield High School, Seattle, Washington Jaya Duckworth (second from right) and friends hold signs showing pride in multiracial identities at a school district-wide walkout in protest of the election of Donald Trump. (Photo courtesy Jaya Duckworth.) Race: Please select…
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2 Tone legend Pauline Black to get honorary degree from Coventry University The Coventry Telegraph 2016-11-21 Catherine Lillington Pauline Black “It’s really important women don’t reach the menopause and go away and knit” Ska and 2 Tone legend Pauline Black is being honoured by Coventry University for her support of the city’s music scene. The…
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An Unsung Hero in the Story of Interracial Marriage The New Yorker 2016-11-17 David Muto, Copy Editor/Senior Web Producer Bill and Carol Muto on their wedding day, eight years after the U.S. Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, struck down interracial-marriage bans. COURTESY BILL AND CAROL MUTO At my parents’ wedding, in Blacksburg, Virginia, my…
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Citizen Monsters: Race and Cannibalism in Suzette Mayr’s Venous Hum Andrea Beverley, Assistant Professor of Canadian Cultural and Literary Studies Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes Volume 47, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 36-58 Halfway through Suzette Mayr’s 2004 novel Venous Hum, a number of the central characters…
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Growing up Indigenous when you don’t look it Unreserved CBC Radio 2016-11-06 Rosanna Deerchild, Host From r: Trevor Jang, Julie Daum, and Daniel Bear. (Supplied) Has anyone ever asked you where you come from? Or what your ethnic background is? Ethnicity and how the world perceives you don’t always go together. Which presents a challenge…
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Half and Half Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2007-02-11 Bliss Broyard David Matthews, Ace of Spades, A Memoir (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2007). Twenty minutes into David Matthews’s first day of fourth grade in a new school in a new city, his classmates surround him and demand to know what he…