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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Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the British Empire [Paterson Review] The British Scholar Society Book of The Month November 2014 Lachy Paterson University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Salesa, Damon Ieremia, Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). 308 pp. $US 45 (paperback). Race has always…
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Some other race The Economist 2013-02-09 How should America count its Hispanics? THE noisy debate over how to fix America’s immigration system is mainly about the large and rapidly growing Hispanic minority. Behind this hums a quieter debate over how they should be counted. Every ten years the American government conducts a census of its…
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Grappling With Today’s Realities From a Black-Jewish Perspective Jewish Exponent: What it Means to be Jewish in Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2015-01-15 David A. Love The author with his wife, Sarah Katz, and son, Micah. As an African-American who is a member of the Jewish community by choice — and is also raising a Jewish child…
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So what are you anyway? CYF News (CYF News is the newsletter for the Children, Youth and Families Office) American Psycological Association August 2013 Mahogany L. Swanson Individuals in the U.S. with one Black and one White parent use the concept of “race switching” as one mechanism for coping with pressures of racial identity. Although…
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A Multiethnic Movement Emerges in Guyana to Counter Politics-as-Usual The New York Times 2015-01-17 Girish Gupta GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Swaying to the rhythms of Afro-Guyanese reggae, the protesters, descendants of African slaves and indentured laborers from India, gathered on the streets of Georgetown in a show of unity against the country’s president. A few years…