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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Q&A with ‘Indian Blood’ author Andrew J. Jolivette University of Washington Press Blog 2016-06-24 In his new book Indian Blood: HIV & Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community, Andrew J. Jolivette examines the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, and provides an analysis of the emerging…
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Standing Up for My Biracial Identity Marie Claire 2016-06-28 Christine Stoddard And what no one understands about it. I realized that my mother was unlike my classmates’ mothers the first time another kid asked if she was my nanny. From the on, I became a little spy in my own home—seeing my mother as other…
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Expat Mom Maria Tumolo On Raising A Multicultural Family In England The Voix: Diverse Narratives. Native Insights 2016-07-07 Although she was happy and content with her life as it were back in Trinidad, Maria Tumolo was at a crossroad regarding her professional and personal development. She had received a firm offer of admission from Edinburgh…
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What are you? A CRT perspective on the experiences of mixed race persons in ‘post-racial’ America Race Ethnicity and Education Volume 18, Issue 1, 2015 pages 1-19 DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2014.911160 Celia Rousseau Anderson, Associate Professor in the Secondary Education Program Department of Instruction and Curriculum Leadership University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee In this article, the author…
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My mixed-race sons look white, but that doesn’t mean racism stays away She Knows 2016-07-09 Fahmida Rashid My mixed-race sons can ‘pass’ for white, and that creates its own pile of issues The first time was when Jake was in kindergarten. He was showing off the drawing of our family: father, mother, baby brother and…
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How Reggie Yates went from kids’ TV to confronting neo-Nazis The Guardian 2016-06-28 Hannah J. Davies Louis Theroux 2.0: Reggie Yates in a cell at Bexar County Detention Center. He braves Russian far-right rallies and Texas prison cells for his job. Meet the man helping to reinvent the documentary for Generation Y While filming in…
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NYC AfroLatino Fest Comes at an Important Time Sounds and Colours 2016-07-05 Gina Vergel It seems the fourth edition of AfroLatinoFest in New York City comes at a crucial time. A survey by the Pew Research Center, released in March, points to a disconnect in how some Afro-Latinos living in the United States report their…