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 Five Stages of Being Biracial (If You’re Me) The Toast 2013-10-21 Jaya Saxena 1. Denial It wasn’t that the idea of being biracial frustrated me, it was just that I didn’t think I was it. Yes, I finally learned to write “Jaya Saxena,” but to a blank-slate of a five-year-old that combination of letters…
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One Thing I Can’t Pass On to My Daughter: White Privilege Brain, Child: the magazine for thinking mothers 2013-10-24 Martha Wood Momsoap: Sometimes I froth at the Mouth A while back, I met up for a play date with another white mother to children of color. As we sat chatting and watching our daughters play,…
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Mixed messages The Queen’s Journal Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada Volume 141, Issue 16, 2013-10-22 Olivia Bowden, Assistant News Editor Many mixed race people, myself included, have trouble defining our ethnic identity. As a child, I’d put on my mother’s makeup and be confused as to why her dark brown foundation didn’t blend with…
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“A Future Unwritten”: Blackness between the Religious Invocations of Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith South Atlantic Quarterly Volume 112, Number 4 (2013) pages 657-674 DOI: 10.1215/00382876-2345225 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Race and religion were two aspects of the Western colonial project. Novelists Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith reflect two related…
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The Fluidity Neither/Both: my mixed-race experience 2013-10-19 Lola Osunkoya I went to the skating rink on a night I don’t usually go, and found myself to be the only female of color there. It was unusual to me because on my regularly night, it’s a predominantly Black crowd. In this stage of my identity development,…
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Virginia Ban on Interracial Marriages Goes to Federal Court This Week The New York Times 1965-01-24 page 43 RICHMOND, Jan. 23—A constitutional test of Virginia laws that make it a crime for a white person to marry a Negro will begin here next week. The case is regarded as certain to go to the United…