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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‘Good Hair’: A Cape Verdean Struggles With Her Racial Identity The Chronicle of Higher Education 2014-05-27 Ana Sofia De Brito Ana Sofia De Brito graduated from Dartmouth College in 2012 with a major in Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean studies. This essay is adapted from a chapter in the book Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell…
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MixedRaceStudies.org Celebrates Its Fifth Year! 2014-05-29 Steven F. Riley This month, MixedRaceStudies.org celebrates its fifth year. The purpose of the site, to provide a non-commercial gateway to interdisciplinary English language scholarship about multiraciality, has held steady for the last five years. Since then, the amount of content has mushroomed to over 7,000 posts and I…
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Herb Jeffries, a.k.a. ‘Bronze Buckaroo’ of Song and Screen, Dies at 100 (or So) The New York Times 2014-05-26 William Yardley Sheelagh McNeill contributed research. Herb Jeffries, who sang with Duke Ellington and starred in early black westerns as a singing cowboy known as “the Bronze Buckaroo” — a nickname that evoked his malleable racial…
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“MUTT” at Impact Theatre—laughs, topic, and a great cast make it worth it Examinier.com 2014-05-12 John A. McMullen II Oakland Theater Examiner Sometimes a mediocre play jumps to life when you assemble an extraordinary cast with a primo director. Christopher Chen’s “MUTT” at Impact Theatre means to be sardonic and poignant. Some of the…
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Geraldo Rivera: On Being Jew-Rican, A Rare Mixed Breed Fox News Latino 2014-05-16 Geraldo Rivero, Senior Correspondent Fox News (From my speech May 14, 2014 at The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Women’s Philanthropy luncheon) I’d like to talk about being Jewish in a Puerto Rican family by telling you the story of my…
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Herb Jeffries, a jazz balladeer whose matinee-idol looks won him fame in the late 1930s as the “Bronze Buckaroo” — the first singing star of all-black cowboy movies for segregated audiences — died May 25 at a hospital in West Hills, Calif. He was widely believed to be 100, but for years he insisted he…
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Mixed: Four young alums open up about their multiracial heritage and how it shapes them Dartmouth Alumni Magzine May/June 2014 pages 42-47 Book Excerpt from: Garrod, Andrew, Christina Gómez, Robert Kilkenny, Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013). Seeking to be Whole By Shannon Joyce Prince ’09 Whenever I’ve…