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: Biography
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In 2005 Margaret Jones Bolsterli learned that her great-great-grandfather was a free mulatto named Jordan Chavis, who owned an antebellum plantation near Vicksburg, Mississippi. The news was a shock; Bolsterli had heard about the plantation in family stories told during her Arkansas Delta childhood, but Chavis’s name and race had never been mentioned.
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Author, 18, from Williamsburg examines race through his family’s eyes in book The Virginia Gazette Williamsburg, Virginia 2016-02-16 Heather Bridges, Contact Reporter Canaan Kennedy, 18, is a freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University who grew up in Williamsburg. He recently published a book, his first, on family members’ experiences with race. (Heather Bridges / The Virginia…
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Unwanted in their mothers’ country and unwelcome in their fathers’ homeland, Filipino Amerasians are still in search of a home.
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Rising Sun, “Rising Soul”: Mixed Race Japanese of African Descent University of Southern California, University Park Campus Los Angeles, California Montgomery Ross Fisher Building (MRF) Montgomery Ross Fisher Auditorium (340) Friday, 2016-02-26, 14:00-17:00 PST (Local Time) Rising Soul is a documentary film that explores the question, “What is the impact of Afro-Japanese offspring and their…
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Black History Month 2016: Three-star General, Lt. General Nadja West Black German Cultural Society 2016-02-05 Congratulations!!! Lt. Gen. Nadja West has been appointed as the Army’s 44th Surgeon General. With this appointment comes a promotion to lieutenant general, which makes West the Army’s first black female 3-star general as well as the highest ranking female…
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Yvonne Chouteau, Native American Ballerina, Dies at 86 The New York Times 2016-01-29 Jack Anderson Yvonne Chouteau, one of the five celebrated Oklahoma ballerinas with an American Indian background, in a 1963 photo. Credit Jack Mitchell/Getty Images Yvonne Chouteau, a former principal dancer of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo who emerged as one of…
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Father Healy’s Imprint: Past, Present and Future The Hoya Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2004-11-09 Moises Mendoza Every day thousands of students pass by Healy Hall and marvel at its towering steeples and complex intricacies. Few of them realize that the man responsible for this Georgetown trademark was every bit as complex and dynamic as the…
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Her Father’s People Stanford Magazine July/August 2009 Erin Aubry Kaplan Antonin Kratochvil WEDDED IDEALISM: Danzy Senna was the middle child born to Fanny Howe and Carl Senna. For years, Danzy Senna thoughtfully explored issues of race and identity in fiction, including her novels Caucasia and Symptomatic. And then one day the author, walking through Harvard…