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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9 Famous Faces On The Struggles And Beauty Of Being Afro-Latino The Huffington Post 2016-02-18 Carolina Moreno, Editor Afro-Latinos face many challenges when it comes to identity, particularly when people refuse to believe that being Black and Latino aren’t mutually exclusive experiences. The Latino identity denotes an ethnicity, which means that Latinos exist in every…
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A Brazilian Artist’s ‘Self-Portraits’ Explore The Beauty Of Interracial Identity The Huffington Post 2016-06-17 Katherine Brooks, Senior Arts & Culture Editor In honor of mestizaje, Adriana Varejão paints herself donning the markings and ornamentation of Native Americans. In 1976, a Brazilian census asked citizens of the country — for the very first time — to…
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case Tripod: New Orleans At 300 89.9 FM WWNO New Orleans, Louisiana 2016-06-16 Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Producer The Provost Guard in New Orleans taking up Vagrant Negroes. (1974.25.9.190) THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION It was June. It was hot. Kids were out of school, keeping busy outdoors. Parents were inside. Kind…
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Star Trek’s Zoe Saldana Drops the Mic Allure June 2016 Sarah Van Boven She doesn’t shy away from confronting sexism. She doesn’t shy away from facing issues of race in Hollywood. In fact, Zoe Saldana doesn’t shy away. Full stop. Zoe Saldana is talking shit. No, for real: “Everybody told me, ‘Oh, don’t worry, I…
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Another Health Funder That’s Focused on Race in a Big Way Inside Philanthropy 2016-06-16 Rob McCarthy The racial dimension of health equity has long preoccupied top funders in the healthcare space and it’s not hard to see why. Spend five minutes looking at health data for the United States and you’ll be blown away by…
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Revealed: MP’s alleged killer ‘bought manual on how to make a handgun and bombs from a US far-right group and has links to neo-Nazi organisations going back decades’ The Daily Mail London, England 2016-06-17 James Tozer, Chris Greenwood, Andy Dolan, and Claire Duffin For The Daily Mail Richard Spillett, Stephanie Linning, and Lucy Crossley for…
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A Confederate Dissident, in a Film With Footnotes The New York Times 2016-06-15 Jennifer Schuessler The forthcoming Matthew McConaughey drama “Free State of Jones” lays claim to being the first Hollywood film in decades to depict Reconstruction, the still controversial post-Civil War period that attempted to rebuild the South along racially egalitarian lines. But the…
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Yes, I’m Black! Here’s why. Medium 2016-06-16 Megan Madison, Doris Duke Fellow School for Social Policy and Management Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Part of an EmbraceRace series on “mixed-race” identity. Based on how people identify themselves, and accounting for their parents’ and grandparents’ identities, the Pew Research Center recently found that 7% of US adults…
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What does ‘Latinx’ mean? A look at the term that’s challenging gender norms Complex 2016-04-18 Yesenia Padilla, Xicanx Poet Southern California If you’ve been online at all in the past year, you’ve probably seen the word “Latinx” and thought: What does it mean? Latinx (pronounced “La-TEEN-ex”) is a gender-inclusive way of referring to people of…