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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In Japan’s Okinawa, saving indigenous languages is about more than words The Washington Post 2014-11-29 Anna Fifield, Tokyo Bureau Chief NISHIHARA, Japan — Rising in turn at their wooden desks, the students giggled, squirmed or shuffled as they introduced themselves, some practically in a whisper. “Waa naamee ya — yaibiin . . . (My name is . . . ).” One…
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‘Pelo Malo’ Director Mariana Rondon: Why Her Movie Hits A Nerve NBC News 2014-11-19 Sandra Guzman For Latinos born with Afro-textured, curly hair or kinky hair – referred to as pelo malo or “bad hair” in Latin America and the Caribbean – their experiences can be quite intense and in many cases negative, as an…
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Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories ed. by Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, Christina Gomez (review) Journal of College Student Development Volume 55, Number 8, November 2014 pages 856-858 DOI: 10.1353/csd.2014.0077 Jessica C. Harris Andrew Garrod, Christina Gómez, and Robert Kilkenny, Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013)…
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Latino Life: Are We Tolerant Of Our Own Hispanic Diversity? NBC News 2014-08-02 Raul A. Reyes Being Latino means being part of a rich, diverse culture. Or does it? Some Latinos feel removed from their peers because of their skin color, language ability, or mixed-race heritage. Others have faced criticism for holding political views at…