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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‘Half Asian’? ‘Half White’? No — ‘Hapa’ National Public Radio Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity 2014-12-15 Alex Laughlin, Social Media Journalist National Journal She was tall and freckled, with long, dark hair — and we stood out in the same way. As I leaned in to say hi, she yelled over the…
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‘I’m proud of my African heritage’ The Korea Times 2014-12-14 Kim Se-jeong Top award winner Park Ji-han says taekwondo changed him When Park Ji-han was in his first year at elementary school, his classmates called him “African shala shala” because of his background and because he spoke Arabic. Now, a decade later, the handsome youth’s…
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Lewis Hamilton wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014 BBC News 2014-12-14 Lewis Hamilton has been voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014. The 29-year-old Mercedes driver won his second Formula 1 world title this season and joined an exclusive club by becoming the fourth Briton to win the drivers’ championship at…
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Lewis Hamilton’s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black? The Guardian London, United Kingdom 2014-11-24 Joseph Harker, Assistant Comment Editor The Formula One champion doesn’t seem to earn the plaudits other successful British sports people do, but the criticism of him is ludicrous Yesterday Lewis Hamilton became the first British driver in more…
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In Memoriam: María Elena Martínez-López, 47 University of Southern California News 2014-11-20 Susan Bell, Senior Writer (213) 740-7894 María Elena Martínez-López, associate professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at USC Dornsife and a leading scholar of colonial Latin America has died. She was 47. Martínez-López died at home in Los Angeles, surrounded by…
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The Talk: After Ferguson, a Shaded Conversation About Race The New York Times 2014-12-13 Dana Canedy, Senior Editor LIKE so many African-American parents, I had rehearsed “the talk,” that nausea-inducing discussion I needed to have with my son about how to conduct himself in the presence of the police. I was prepared for his questions,…
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Pope Francis Prays for New Ways of Development in Latin America. America: The National Catholic Review 2014-12-12 Gerard O’Connell, Associate Editor/Vatican Correspondent The enchanting music and song of the Missa Criolla resounded through St Peter’s Basilica on the evening of December 12 as Francis, the first Latin American pope, celebrated mass on the feast of…