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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Growing Up As A Hafu In Japan GaijinPot 2014-08-23 Yumi Nakata Even though Japan is far more Westernized today than it has ever been, it still remains a very homogeneous country. The government has been trying to promote internationalization and also improve the English curriculum in schools but the process takes times and Japan is…
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EXCLUSIVE: Meet Hip-Hop’s Next Big Thing Nitty Scott, MC Latina 2015-02-13 Raquel Reichard If you’re a hip-hop fan, you may already be familiar with the genre’s latest heavy hitter: Nitty Scott, MC. This year alone the half-Puerto Rican, half-African American artist has been called the next big MC and a woman you should know. And…
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Dorothy Roberts: Bringing Different Perspectives into Class University of Pennsylvania Multimedia 2015-02-12 When Dorothy Roberts was 3 months old, she moved with her parents from Chicago to Liberia, where her mother, Iris, had worked as a young woman after leaving Jamaica. It was the first of Dorothy’s many trips abroad, and one during which her…
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The Lazy Storytelling of ‘Black or White’: Love and Justice Are Not Colorblind Christ and Pop Culture (CAPC) 2015-02-11 D. L. Mayfield I was at a writing retreat once where a bunch of us gathered together to talk about how to write well about social justice issues in our world. A young singer-songwriter with a…
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What Are Words Worth: Hapa, Hafu or Mixed-Race? Pacific Citizen: The National Newspaper of the JACL Los Angeles, California 2015-01-27 Gil Asakawa I’ve just finished writing revisions for a new edition of my book, “Being Japanese American: A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa … & Their Friends,” which will be published this July by Stone…
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Identity as Skin Color: Performing a “White” Identity in Caucasia Scholars: Journal of Undergraduate Research Issue 16 – Winter 2011 McKendree University Online Journal of Undergraduate Research Lebanon, Illinois Anastasia Bierman ‘My body would fill in the blanks, tell me who I should become, and I would let it speak for me,’ says Birdie Lee,…
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Part Asian-American, All Jewish? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-02-10 Rachel Gross, Editor Moment Magazine I was five years old when my mother threatened to give me away to journalist Connie Chung. Chung and her husband, Maury Povich, had just announced their intention to adopt a half-Chinese, half-Jewish child.…
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Connecting the Dots in Suicide Prevention Vassar Alumnae/i Quarterly Poughkeepsie, New York Spring/Summer 2014 Eric Marcus ’80 Rebecca Hyde ’92 According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), suicide is the 10th leading cause of death for Americans. Christine Yu Moutier ’90 wants to do something about that. Last fall, following two decades of…
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A History of Loss The Chronicle Review The Chronicle of Higher Education 2015-02-09 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University Alexander L. Manly could have been the first victim of the bloody race riot that exploded in Wilmington, N.C., in early November 1898. Manly, publisher of the Daily Record, North Carolina’s only African-American newspaper,…