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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“Mixed” reactions highlight mixed-race issues in the US and the UK.
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A schoolboy who shot two schoolmates dead on his 16th birthday has been named as Nathaniel Berhow.
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“The Latinos that are not dark-skinned don’t call themselves White Latinos or Caucasian Latinos. I know that might sound controversial,” she admitted.
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Rhonda Fils-Aimé was adopted by a white family as a baby, and her biological father, Philippe, had no idea
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While a lot of progress has been made since then, the way that society perceives mixed-race people still needs to be explored. “Mixed-ish” goes back to basics and uses comedy as a tool to discuss it.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams’s argument against race.
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The Tribune spoke with Valentine about what it was like to grow up under such false pretenses, surrounded by a family and community clearly discomfited by issues of race. She also offers thoughts about what it means to be a mixed-race person of color in America today and why the statement “I don’t see race”…
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Elevating Social Status by Racial Passing and White Assimilation: in George Schuyler’s Black No More
This paper aims to reconcile the assimilationist views of Schuyler against his larger purpose of empowerment through change. Schuyler focuses on issues of education, economy, and social status to demonstrate his thesis: meaningful change is possible if action is taken.