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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In his lucid new memoir, Thomas Chatterton Williams channels Albert Camus and James Baldwin—and offers a thoughtful counterpoint to the tired racial dogmas of both Right and Left.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams has seen the future, and he is it.
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“Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race” by Thomas Chatterton Williams reviewed
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What occasioned this new effort was the arrival of his first child, Marlow, after marrying his wife, Valentine, the white, blond-haired scion of French aristocrats. Williams fell in love with the French language as an undergraduate when a wealthy student said the word “baguette” to him, and Williams was embarrassed that he didn’t know what…
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But Julia Bullock, a young soprano who performed her Naumburg Foundation recital last Tuesday at the Metropolitan Museum, definitely has it, and she is off to a fine career.
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The author and critic discusses why we should move away from race categories defined ‘using plantation logic’ – and suggests ‘retiring from race’
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A federal judge on Friday struck down as unconstitutional a Virginia law requiring people to state their race when applying for a marriage license.
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Never in a million years will people viewing Julia Bullock as she strides the War Memorial Opera House floorboards as Dame Shirley suspect there is vulnerability undergirding every step. Nor will the 31-year-old soprano’s direct delivery of transparent tones in the world premiere of John Adams’s “Girls of the Golden West,” a San Francisco Opera…
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Finding that the statute violates the 14th Amendment, Judge Rossie D. Alston wrote in his ruling Friday that requiring the couples “to disclose their race in order to receive marriage licenses burdens their fundamental right to marry,” Alston wrote.
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While his “Self-Portrait in Black and White” begins with assertions of his blackness, it evolves into a rich set of questions occasioned by the birth of his first child.