Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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National Museum of the American Indian Presents Unprecedented Retrospective “Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist” Newsdesk: Newsroom of the Smithsonian 2015-10-29 SI-423A-2015 For nearly five decades, Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee, b. 1935) has charted an artistic career that is not bound by singular definition. While her early work with Native themes celebrate heroic American Indian leaders with…
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Preview of DREAM OF THE WATER CHILDREN by Wendy Cheng 2Leaf Press: A Small Press with Big Ideas! New York, New York 2016-01-18 Wendy Cheng, Assistant Professor School of Social Transformation Faculty Arizona State University A Black-Japanese Amerasian reflects on life in the present, with the traces of wars and their aftermaths. In Dream of…
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Black like her: Is racial identity a state of mind? The Washington Post 2015-06-16 Amy Ellis Nutt, Reporter While people continue to question the motivations behind former NAACP official Rachel Dolezal’s claiming she is black, scientists say identity, even racial identity, doesn’t arise from any single place in the brain. Individuals contain different selves, often…
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When Ancestry Search Led To Escaped Slave: ‘All I Could Do Was Weep’ Fresh Air (From WHYY in Philadelphia) National Public Radio 2016-01-18 Terry Gross, Host When she was in fifth grade, Regina Mason received a school assignment that would change her life: to connect with her country of origin. That night, she went home…
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Who’s Hispanic? Who’s Filipino? The Multiracial Activist: Covering news of interest to multiracial individuals and interracial couples since 1997. 2016-01-15 Emily Monroy A few years ago, I wrote an essay called ‘Who’s White?’ I asked this question about several individuals, both famous (controversial shooter George Zimmerman) and not-so-famous (two boyfriends of mine). I ended the…
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Staceyann Chin Worries About Money, and Selling Out The New York Times 2016-01-14 Laura Collins-Hughes The day she traded in her little two-door convertible for a crossover S.U.V. — “a mom car,” she calls it — the performance poet Staceyann Chin went home and cried. It wasn’t enough that pregnancy had forever altered her body.…