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 concept of race is a slippery slope’: Ullenhag The Local: Sweden’s News in English 2014-08-01 Solveig Rundquist Integration Minister Erik Ullenhag tells The Local why he plans to remove the term “race” from all Swedish law, how he responds to his critics, and why Sweden must steer clear of xenophobia. The decision has been…
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‘Everything I Never Told You’ Exposed In Biracial Family’s Loss Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-06-28 Arun Rath All Things Considered It’s May, 1977, in small-town Ohio, and the Lee family is sitting down at breakfast. James is Chinese-American and Marilyn is white, and they have three children —…
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Walter Tull: Descendants to honour pioneering black footballer who was also a hero of the First World War The Daily Mirror 2014-01-19 Ben Glaze, Reporter The Sunday Mirror Pioneer: Walter Tull in his Tottenham kit (Getty Images) The orphaned grandson of slaves played for Tottenham Hotspur and then became the first black man to hold…
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Race to be scrapped from Swedish legislation The Local: Sweden’s News in English 2014-07-31 Solveig Rundquist The Swedish government announced that it plans to remove all mentions of race from Swedish legislation, saying that race is a social construct which should not be encouraged in law. “We know that different human races actually do not…
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Little White Lie,’ Lacey Schwartz’s Film About Self-Discovery
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One Drop of a Father’s Love Biracials Learning About African-American Culture (B.L.A.A.C) Sunday, 2014-06-15 Zebulon Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York This week I had the pleasure of attending a one-woman show by Television and Film actress, Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, called “One Drop of Love” a multimedia…
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Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between race and place ed. by Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe, and: Labor and Love in Guatemala: The eve of independence by Catherine Komisaruk (review) Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 15, Number 2, Summer 2014 DOI: 10.1353/cch.2014.0025 Julia A. Gibbings, Assistant Professor of History University Of Manitoba,…
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Mixed roots, common bonds The Kansas City Star Kansas City, Missouri 2014-07-21 Jeneé Osterheldt Her first year at KU [University of Kansas], Jasmin Moore noticed the black students sat together. The Hispanic students sat together. And everyone else did the same. This was over a decade ago. “For the first time, I was trying to…