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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Jewish girl overcomes a ‘Little White Lie’ about race The Kansas City Star Kansas City, Missouri 2015-01-05 Jeneé Osterheldt When I look at one of her old baby pictures, I think of my own childhood snapshots. A mixed little girl sits happily in her white mama’s lap. It’s a sweet picture of Lacey Schwartz and…
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Mixed College Students: WHO vs. WHAT NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education 2014-12-24 Aaron Moore, Residence Life: Hall Director Ohio State University Over the past few weeks I have read Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories (2014) and was extremely pleased with the thought provoking and eye opening narratives that were shared…
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So, What Are You?: A Multiracial Perspective On Identity Jossle Magazine 2014-11-18 Leilani Stacy Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts “So, what are you?” In a word, “Wasian,” or more accurately, “Multiracial.” Specifically, I’m a quarter Japanese, a “mutt” of white—Scottish, Irish, Pennsylvania Dutch, French, English, German, Danish—and probably a little Native American (don’t worry, I didn’t…
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I Claim Black Because My Light Skin Doesn’t Protect Me from Misogynoir For Harriet 2015-01-03 Kesiena Boom Brighton, England I am a mixed race woman. One of my parents is Black and the other is white. I identify as both mixed race and as Black. I do so because of the legacy of the one…
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Dreams of my mother… One Love, One London 2015-01-04 Tony Thomas It’s October 1959; Paddington station is busy… Scanning the departures board for her train a nervous looking woman hurries towards the platform. In one hand she carries a suitcase and holding her other hand tightly is a pretty 2 year old; a mixed race…
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‘A Tale of Two Plantations,’ by Richard S. Dunn Sunday Rook Review The New York Times 2015-01-02 Greg Grandin, Professor of History New York University Dunn, Richard S., A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014). For enslaved peoples in the New World, it was…
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Edward Brooke, first black elected U.S. senator, dies at 95 USA Today 2015-01-03 Natalie DiBlasio Former Massachusetts U.S. senator Edward Brooke, the first African American to be elected to the Senate by popular vote, has died at age 95. Ralph Neas, a former aide, said Brooke died Saturday of natural causes at his home in…
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Edward Brooke, Pioneering U.S. Senator in Massachusetts, Dies at 95 The New York Times 2015-01-03 Douglas Martin Edward W. Brooke III, who in 1966 became the first African-American elected to the United States Senate by popular vote, winning as a Republican in overwhelmingly Democratic Massachusetts, died on Saturday at his home in Coral Gables, Fla.…