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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The ‘Human Computer’ Behind the Moon Landing Was a Black Woman The Daily Beast 2016-04-07 Nathan Place Image of Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1971. In an age of racism and sexism, Katherine Johnson broke both barriers at NASA. She calculated the trajectory of man’s first trip to the moon, and was…
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The SRB Interview: Jackie Kay Scottish Review of Books Volume 11, Issue 3 (2016) Opening one of Jackie Kay’s books is like walking into a busy metropolitan bar that has accommodated within its walls the deep past, character and charm of a country pub. You know you will encounter stories comic and sad, that you…
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The black people ‘erased from history’ BBC News Magazine 2016-04-10 Arlene Gregorius, BBC Mexico More than a million people in Mexico are descended from African slaves and identify as “black”, “dark” or “Afro-Mexican” even if they don’t look black. But beyond the southern state of Oaxaca they are little-known and the community’s leaders are now…
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Jussie Smollett Talks About Growing Up in a Biracial Home and Pranking His ‘Empire’ Costars ABC News 2016-04-08 Angela Williams, Entertainment TV Producer There is lots of great music, loads of drama and plenty of surprises packed into each episode of Fox’s “Empire.” And much of it is centered around break-out star Jussie Smollett who…
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Meet Yosif Stalin, The Soviet-Born Black American From Kremlin, Virginia Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 2016-04-08 Carl Schrek KREMLIN, Virginia — Yosif Stalin stood before his Kremlin home on a windswept afternoon this spring, his weathered hands gripping his walker. “I still own it,” he said of the white, two-story house off a lonely country road.…
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The problem for poor, white kids is that a part of their culture has been destroyed The Guardian 2016-04-04 Paul Mason Our culture was the one celebrated in Ken Loach movies … a scene from the film Kes. Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock Thatcherism didn’t just crush the unions, it crushed a story – as the report that…
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Of association, assimilation and mixed-race marriages Oman Daily Observer 2016-03-21 Ali Ahmed Al Riyami It is said that ‘love knows no bounds’ and, as such, when two people meet and fall in love there is little that can stop there union and all that it entails; especially the expected outcome, which is in fact the…
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Hapas Soon to Be the Majority in the Japanese American Community AsAmNews: Where the conversation about Asian America Begins 2016-04-16 Louis Chan, AsAmNews National Correspondent The future is now in the Japanese American community. By 2020, just four years away, demographers says the majority of Japanese Americans will be multiracial/multiethnic. A new exhibition now at…