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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Category: Articles
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New Orleans After the Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom by Justin A. Nystrom (review) Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Volume 111, Number 4, Autumn 2013 pages 617-619 DOI: 10.1353/khs.2014.0023 Aaron Astor, Associate professor of History Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee Nystrom, Justin A., New Orleans after the Civil War: Race,…
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Cheerios revisits mixed-race family for Super Bowl spot Today 2014-01-29 Ben Popken, Senior Staff Writer/Editor For its first ever Super Bowl ad, Cheerios is telling racists to “stick a spoon in it.” General Mills is portraying in its big game spot the same mixed-race family that drew so many hateful remarks on YouTube last May…
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New Rabbi at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue ‘a Pioneer’ The Wall Street Journal 2014-01-17 Sophia Hollander Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl Is Daughter of a Korean Buddhist Immigrant and an American Jew Growing up as the daughter of a Korean Buddhist immigrant and an American Jew in Tacoma, Wash., Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl said some family members…
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The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930 [Joseph Review] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Published online: 2014-01-26 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt079 Ralina L. Joseph, Associate Professor of Communication University of Washington The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930. Jolie A. Sheffer. New Brunswick…
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Dark skin, blue eyes: Genes paint a picture of 7,000-year-old European NBC News 2014-01-26 Alan Boyle, Science Editor A 7,000-year-old man whose bones were left behind in a Spanish cave had the dark skin of an African, but the blue eyes of a Scandinavian. He was a hunter-gatherer who ate a low-starch diet and couldn’t…
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Getting Race-y in the PMAC The News: The official student newspaper of Choate Rosemary Hall Wallingford, Connecticut Saturday, 2014-01-25 Alexandra Brunjes ’16, News Staff Reporter “How does our belief in ‘race’ affect our most intimate relationships?” This is the question that Ms. Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni sought to answer during her one-woman performance, One Drop of…
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The Trouble with Transcendence: Is Defying the Gender Binary the New Racial Passing? Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2014-01-21 Mallory Nicole Davis University of Oregon In 2010, Thomas Araguz III, a Texas firefighter died on the job, leaving behind his two children and transgender wife, Nikki.[1] The couple was legally married because although…