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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Racial Identity Choice and its Consequences: A Study on Elizabeth Alexander’s Race Annual International Conference on Language and Literature Medan, Indonesia 2020-11-04 through 2020-11-05 Published 2021-03-11 Pages 17-27 DOI: 10.18502/kss.v5i4.8661 Nur Saktiningrum Department of English Gadjah Mada University of Yogyakarta, Indonesia Race, as people understand it, is something that you were born with. One was…
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The Washington Post talked to Terrell and Murray about what it was like to work on “The Personal Librarian” when so much of the world was falling apart.
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J.P. Morgan’s librarian hid her race. A novel imagines the toll on her. The Christian Science Monitor 2021-06-29 Heller McAlpin, Correspondent Library of Congress Belle da Costa Greene, shown in 1929, curated rare books for mogul J.P. Morgan. She was the first director of the Morgan Library. Some books leave you wondering why the author…
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The author of “Speak, Okinawa” talks about learning her family history, writing from guilt, and questioning her father’s values.
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Harry Pace started the first major Black-owned record label in the U.S., but his achievements went mostly unnoticed until recently, when his descendants uncovered his secret history.
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Study: Let’s Replace ‘Ancestry’ in Forensics With Something More Accurate North Carolina State University News Raleigh, North Carolina 2021-07-14 Matt Shipman, Research Communications Lead A new study finds forensics researchers use terms related to ancestry and race in inconsistent ways, and calls for the discipline to adopt a new approach to better account for both…
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Based on our findings we propose replacing the assumption of continental ancestry with a population structure approach that combines microevolutionary and cultural factors with historical events in the examination of population affinity.