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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The Hafu Nation: Five Voices Tokyo Weekender: Japan’s Premier English Magazine 2015-05-03 Kyle Mullin Velina Hasu Houston (Photo by Ken Matsui) Four members of the “Hafu Nation” share their experiences of living life from (at least) two perspectives. Ariana Miyamoto has proven that beauty is not merely skin deep. Although some of her detractors criticized…
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The Forgotten Supervillain of Antebellum Tennessee Narratively: Human Stories, Boldy Told. 2015-04-28 Betsy Phillips (Photo Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isaac-franklin-by-wb-cooper.jpg) In a brutal business defined by cruelty, Isaac Franklin was perhaps the worst slave trader in all of cotton country—and the richest man in the south. Yet today his heinous crimes are long forgotten. The people of Nashville…
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Trevor Noah’s World The Atlantic 2015-04-05 Douglas Foster, Associate Professor of Journalism Medill School of Journalism Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois What makes The Daily Show’s new host unique—according to South African comics CAPE TOWN, South Africa—When word circulated on Monday that standup comic Trevor Noah had been chosen to succeed Jon Stewart as host of…
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Laura Kina Fused Society 2015-04-16 Laura Kina, Vincent de Paul professor of Art, Media, & Design DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Meet today’s Fused Society contributor, the accomplished Laura Kina! “Laura Kina is a multiracial Asian American artist based in Chicago who identifies as “hapa, yonsei, and Unchinanchu” (mixed race, 4th generation Japanese American, and part of…
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Today it’s taken for granted that people of all ethnic groups should be treated equally in the armed forces and elsewhere. But as Leslie Gordon Goffe writes, during World War One black officers in the British armed forces faced a system with prejudice at its core.
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The Life of William Apess, Pequot University of North Carolina Press March 2015 216 pages 1 halftone, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4696-1998-9 Philip F. Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess…
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“In Lines of Descent,” Kwame Anthony Appiah traces the twin lineages of Du Bois’ American experience and German apprenticeship, showing how they shaped the great African-American scholar’s ideas of race and social identity.
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Was pro baseball’s first African-American player passing for white? Vox 2015-04-11 Jenée Desmond-Harris William Edward White on the 1879 Brown baseball team. White is in the second row, seated and wearing a hat. (Source: Brown University Archives via Slate) A story about professional baseball’s little-known first black player (well, possible first black player) raises as…
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A real-life Lucious Lyon: The former slave who built a Beale Street “Empire” and transformed Memphis
A real-life Lucious Lyon: The former slave who built a Beale Street “Empire” and transformed Memphis Salon 2015-04-04 Preston Lauterbach Bob Church (Credit: University of Memphis Special Collections) Memphis — and music as we know it — wouldn’t be the same without Robert Church’s legacy of vice, virtue and power Depending on which critic or…