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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Métis author says the published version of her 1973 memoir ‘didn’t tell the complete story’
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In “The Vanishing Half,” the story of two sisters divided by the color line yields new models of identity and authenticity.
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This polyethnography is an interdisciplinary collaboration between four multiracial women faculty employed at different universities across the US to examine their experiences navigating monocentricity in higher education.
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If I choose a donor of color, am I condemning my child to be born into a system designed not to serve them? Or can I use my white privilege to help them fight that system?
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To be a good mom to my kids, I must be their fiercest advocate at all times, because the world won’t be.
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Comfortable in My Own Skin Sojourners January 2020 Maika Llaneza New Orleans, Louisiana My theology says brown skin is beautiful, but my Pinterest page said otherwise. MY EXPERIENCE BEING color-shamed began when I was 5 years old and still living in the Philippines. My mom and aunts often told me that I could be mistaken…
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This article focuses on the experiences of women of African descent who were made captives (and, in some cases, recaptives) after the 1683 buccaneer raid on Veracruz,
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In 1933, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra gave the world premiere of Symphony No. 1 by a then little-known composer named Florence Price. The performance marked the first time a major orchestra played music by an African-American woman.