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: Identity Development/Psychology
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In an increasingly multiracial America, identity is a fluid thing 89.3 KPCC: Southern California Public Radio Pasadena, California 2016-02-16 Leslie Berestein Rojas, Immigration and Emerging Communities Reporter If there’s any part of town that’s solidly Latino, it’s where Walter Thompson Hernandez grew up, in Huntington Park. The city, on the southeast fringe of Los Angeles,…
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“In sixth grade, a lot of people thought I was Hispanic or white because I have chocolate hair, like it’s not black hair. My eyes aren’t as prominent,” Ahlberg, now in eighth grade, said. “My mom is Taiwanese and my dad is half Swedish.”
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Black in the USSR: The children of Soviet Africa search for their own identity The Calvert Journal 2016-02-04 Photography by Liz Johnson Artur Photograph by Liz Johnson Artur “When people ask me about my background I usually start by explaining how my mum is Russian, my dad is Ghanaian and that I was born in…
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When people think of famous Latina women, Jennifer Lopez or Sofia Vergara come to mind. Not Zoe Saldana or Rosario Dawson…
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In “The Alexander Litany,” intersectionality collides with campus North by Northwestern 2016-02-03 Lauren Sonnenberg Roger Mason as Clarence, Eliott Sagay as Joseph, Grant Lewis as Jackson, Jeff Paschal as Max. Photo by Alexandria Woodson “Look into my eyes and you’ll see that fear ain’t only skin deep, at least not for me,” implored Max Alexander,…
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“What? Black people in the Dominican Republic?” Yes amig@*, there are Black Dominican people whose ancestors descend from the African motherland. However, the question is not so much, “Are there Black people in the Dominican Republic?” as it is “Are Dominican people Black?”