Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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The governor of Louisiana has pardoned Homer Plessy, a 19th century black activist whose arrest 130 years ago led to one of the most criticised Supreme Court decisions in US history.
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German-born photographer Zun Lee documents the special non-special moments of black family life.
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Alena Murang, who has mixed parentage, discovered only as an adult that she was not legally “native” in her homeland, Sarawak.
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Their interracial romance ended painfully after college. They reunited 42 years later — and now live together. The Washington Post 2021-10-04 Sydney Page, Freelance Reporter Steve Watts and Jeanne Gustavson, while they were dating in secret in the 1970s. The couple met in college at a German Club meeting, when Gustavson was a freshman and…
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The jokes, comments and stereotypes always flow so freely. I speak up every time.
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Large groups of people have always fallen through the cracks of its racial categories — often by design.
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I thought I was White until I learned my mother’s secret. The census helped me tell my family story.
I thought I was White until I learned my mother’s secret. The census helped me tell my family story. The Washington Post 2021-10-13 Gail Lukasik Gail Lukasik’s mother, Alvera Frederic Kalina, in New Orleans circa 1942. Kalina was born into a Black family in New Orleans but spent her life passing as White. (Family photo)…
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By invoking the “Indian grandmother” and royal African ancestor tropes, Hughes complicates those compartmentalized identities and US histories implied via the American blood idiom to denote associations with enslavement that bolster notions of intraracial difference and white supremacist ideology.