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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Loving v. Virginia in Historical Context Crossing Borders, Bridging Generatons Brooklyn Historical Society June 2014 Renee Romano, Associate Professor of History Oberlin College Renee Romano teaches history at Oberlin College and she is the author of Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America (Harvard University Press, 2003), and co-editor of The Civil Rights Movement in…
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I’m Not White, But Nobody Can Ever Tell What Race I Am xoJane.com 2014-07-25 Casey Walker Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts I have to go through a “coming out” moment in every new relationship to explain my ethnicity. My skin is pale olive in the winter and a soft brown in the summer, and my hair…
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I get it. Being mixed race in a mono-racial society is tough. There still isn’t much room for multiplicity in our society. From race categories on forms, to Barack Obama being called the first “Black” president even as he was raised by his white grandparents, to people asking a mixed race person “what are you?”…
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At last, a home for black history The Guardian 2014-07-23 Paul Reid, Director Black Cultural Archives The launch of the Black Cultural Archives will show that our presence in the UK is measured in millennia, not decades I remember the time I got caned at school. It was the 1970s, and during a history lesson…
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Positioning of the Mixed Race Author and Mixed Race Protagonist in British Children’s Literature Critical Pedagogies: Equality and Diversity in a Changing Institution 2014-07-23 Ludovic Foster, Ph.D. Candidate Department Gender Studies University of Sussex, United Kingdom I would like to examine a few of the issues around the positioning of the mixed race child, and…