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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The Whiteness Project: Facing Race In A Changing America National Public Radio All Things Considered 2014-12-21 Karen Grigsby Bates Los Angeles Correspondent Whitney Dow found participants in the Whiteness Project by putting out a call for interested white folks in Buffalo to talk about whiteness on tape. The voices in the Whiteness Project vary by…
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Anti-intellectualism is taking over the US The Guardian 2012-05-18 Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University, New York, New York The rise in academic book bannings and firings is compounded by the US’s growing disregard for scholarship itself Recently, I found out that my work is mentioned in a book that has…
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My family has always been mixed race. But it has never been post-racial The Guardian 2014-12-17 Ramou Sarr Boston, Massachusetts I was always terrified that my white nephew would grow up to be a racist. The events in Ferguson tested our relationship to its breaking point It was almost 10 years ago, and my little…