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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Category: Articles
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Don’t Erase My Race: 4 Affirmations to Remember When Reclaiming Your Multi-Racial Identity Everyday Feminism 2015-02-24 Aliya Khan, Contributing Writer Source: “Navigating Two Different Cultures: A Pakistani Immigrant Girl’s Struggles,” The Brooklyn Ink, (May 16, 2013). I was walking across campus, on my way to class, when a white man stopped me and asked, “Are…
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Our rising white-black multiracial population The Avenue / Rethinking Metropolitan America The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. 2015-02-23 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program The fastest growing racial group in the country is those who identify themselves as “two or more” races. Yet, perhaps most encouraging, as discussed in my book Diversity Explosion, is…
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Controversial ruling in Spence unlikely to apply to many other estates cases AdvocateDaily.com: Canada’s Legal News 2015-02-24 Lisa Laredo The court decision in Spence v. BMO Trust Company, 2015 ONSC 615 (CanLII) has led to concerns about court interference and uncertainty in estate planning. An Ontario court judge held a will to be invalid due…
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In France, a Baby Switch and a Test of a Mother’s Love The New York Times 2015-02-24 Maïa de la Baume GRASSE, France — When Sophie Serrano finally held her daughter, Manon, in her arms after the newborn, suffering from jaundice, had been placed under artificial light, she was taken aback by the baby’s thick…
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Building a Face, and a Case, on DNA The New York Times 2015-02-23 Andrew Pollack The police in Columbia, S.C., released this sketch of a possible suspect based on DNA left at the crime scene. Parabon NanoLabs, which made the image, has begun offering DNA phenotyping services to law enforcement agencies. There were no known…
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The Kidnapping of Mollie Digby: Was the Fair-Haired Stranger Actually Mollie? All Things Crime 2015-02-20 Darcia Helle In 1870, New Orleans was a city divided by politics, class, and race. The Civil War had left much of the south reeling, and now the government’s Radical Reconstruction attempted to force change by integrating the black population…
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Metis actress Tantoo Cardinal to receive lifetime achievement award CTV News 2015-02-05 The Canadian Press TORONTO — As Metis actress Tantoo Cardinal prepares to receive a lifetime achievement award, she remembers what originally inspired her to begin acting more than 40 years ago: anger. “It wasn’t about a career at all — it was about…
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The white man who pretended to be black The Telegraph 2015-02-05 Tim Stanley With the release of the movie Selma, a lot of Americans are asking how far race relations have really come in the United States. On the one hand, the movie depicts the success of the Sixties civil rights crusade – its victory…
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Fresh Off the Boat Is Not Science Fiction David Shih 2015-02-10 David Shih, Associate Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire I have always known that moment of disappearance and the even uglier truth is that I have long treasured it. That always honorable-seeming absence. It appears I can go anywhere I wish. Is…