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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“I was living in a racial closet”: Black filmmaker Lacey Schwartz on growing up white Salon Sunday, 2015-03-22 Marissa Charles A photo of Lacey Schwartz and her mother, in “Little White Lie” (Credit: PBS) Schwartz talks to Salon about race, privilege, family secrets and her new PBS documentary “Little White Lie” For the first 18…
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I’m a White Mom With Biracial Children, and What I Do With Their Hair Is No One’s Business The Root 2015-03-24 Maria Guido, Associate Editor Mommyish Being the mother of two biracial children, I’m noticing that both races feel a sense of community when offering boundary-invading, unsolicited hair-care advice. Maybe I’m just not the type…
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The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada by Joanne Rappaport (review) [von Germeten] The Americas Volume 72, Number 1, January 2015 pages 159-160 Nicole von Germeten, Associate Professor of History Oregon State University Rappaport, Joanne, The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada (Durham: Duke University…
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Growing Up White Until a Family Secret Revealed She Was Not The Root 2015-03-22 Genetta M. Adams, Senior Editor In the documentary Little White Lie, filmmaker Lacey Schwartz spins a compelling story about embracing her racial identity. Lacey Schwartz grew up as a white, Jewish girl in the predominantly white community of Woodstock, N.Y., raised…
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Meet Elizabeth Liang from Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey Culture Shock Toolbox 2015-03-23 H. E. Rybol Elizabeth acts on stage, film, and television. A graduate of Wesleyan (after transferring from Wellesley), she is a published essayist (“Checked Baggage: Writing Unpacked,” “Transforming Three Sisters”) and has a column about creative adult TCKs at TheDisplacedNation.com. She is also…
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Navigating Through my Tamil-Filipino World: An Account of a Mixed First Generation Kid Tamil Culture 2014-01-30 Shanelle Kandiah Throughout my life, every time I have come to meet someone for the first time, I seem to always be asked about my ethnicity. Over the course of a conversation with someone, I can even anticipate the…