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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Hew To The Line And Let The Chips Fall Where They May. The Broad Ax Salt Lake City, Utah 1903-09-05 (Volume VIII, Number 45) page 1, columns 5-6 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. United States Library of Congress. (For “The Broad Ax”) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,—8. The reader will observe the figures at…
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A Son of the Wealthiest Planter in the South Convicted of a Great Crime. The Anderson Intellingencer Anderson Court House., South Carolina Thursday Morning, 1875-05-20 (Volume X, Number 44) page 1, column 3 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. United States Library of Congress. “William S. Calhoun, convicted of forgery on evidence of his quadroon…
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Unpublished Black Asian History Grits and Sushi: my musings on okinawa, race, militarization, and blackness 2016-03-08 Mitzi Uehara Carter This photo captures a quiet story of a multicultural South, black philanthropy, transpacific militarism and its hauntings, the organizing strength of of Black women, and the power of Black journalism and photography. How does this one…
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EXCLUSIVE: Misty Copeland on overcoming adversity, fighting for diversity in ballet The State Columbia, South Carolina 2016-03-09 Erin Shaw Misty Copeland Provided photo The prima ballerina talks body image and being named the first black woman principal dancer Copeland comes to Columbia for a ballet fundraiser with Elgin native Brooklyn Mack There was time when…
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An Emerging Entry In America’s Multiracial Vocabulary: ‘Blaxican’ Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2016-03-08 Adrian Florido When Melissa Adams and her sister were growing up in Lynwood, near Compton, Calif., their black father and Mexican mother taught them to be proud of all aspects of their identity: They were…
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Variations on racial tension The Harvard Gazette 2016-02-26 John Laidler, Harvard Correspondent For every nation, a different set of challenges, panelists say A panel discussion Wednesday highlighted striking contrasts in how nations perceive and grapple with racial inequality. Tracing evolving attitudes toward race and discrimination in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, a trio…
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The ‘anti-racist’ crowd have resorted to the old politics of racism The Spectator 2016-03-07 Brendan O’Neill The self-important slayers of ‘cultural appropriation’ have gone too far this time. Clearly they didn’t get a big-enough moral kick from chastising white people who do yoga (on the basis that yoga has ‘roots in Indian culture’), moaning about…
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Why Zoe Saldana was the wrong black woman to play Nina Simone The Telegraph 2016-03-04 Emma Dabiri With her long silky hair and brown tan skin, Zoe Saldana may well be black. But is she “black enough” to play Nina Simone? Some people seem to think not. Ms Simone’s surviving family have asked Saldana, who…
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The Lucky Seven Interview, with Adebe DeRango-Adem Open Book: Toronto 2016-02-28 Grace O’Connell, Senior Editor The metaphor of striking out to explore unknown land is a particularly apt one for the act of writing, so the title Terra Incognita (Inanna Publications) fits Adebe DeRango-Adem’s new collection of poetry perfectly. Exploring racial discourse in both contemporary…