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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But her personal identity, or at least the one of her parents, is much different. Hall’s mother is from Detroit, Michigan—perhaps an unlikely place as any to birth an opera singer—and bi-racial with African American and Dutch ancestry. Her grandfather was also bi-racial and to hear Hall tell it, both of them had a very…
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Born from a combination of cultures, we have a foot in two (or more) worlds but, oftentimes, none of them fits quite right.
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How to Talk to Multiracial Kids About Race KQED News San Francisco, California 2020-06-12 Lakshmi Sarah, Digital Producer Eva Lourdes, 7 Stella Marèsol, 3, at a table in their garage filled with art and books on June 11, 2020. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) June 12 is celebrated as “Loving Day,” a day commemorating Loving v. Virginia —…
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Early in her career she created brightly colored scenes of black middle-class domestic life. Her later work was increasingly personal and experimental.
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“The Ahmaud Arbery video was the final straw for me in being silent. That shook me to the core like nothing has in the past,” Wallace, 26, said in a telephone interview Friday.