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: Latino Studies
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Some other race The Economist 2013-02-09 How should America count its Hispanics? THE noisy debate over how to fix America’s immigration system is mainly about the large and rapidly growing Hispanic minority. Behind this hums a quieter debate over how they should be counted. Every ten years the American government conducts a census of its…
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Half Like Me Fusion Thursday, 2015-01-22, 22:00 EST (21:00 CST, 19:00 PST) (Full Schedule) Prompted by an upcoming family reunion, Al Madrigal—actor, comedian and “Daily Show” correspondent—takes us on his journey from full-on red-blooded American to almost Mexican, as he learns how to be a better Latino and understand what it means to be “Half…
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Al Madrigal’s New Special ‘Half Like Me’ Is What Latinos Have Been Waiting For The Huffington Post 2015-01-13 Ana Maria Benedetti Al Madrigal goes on a journey of self-discovery… starting with how to pronounce his own name. In his new one-hour special “Half Like Me,” premiering on Fusion on January 22, The Daily Show’s senior…
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Don’t put race in a box The Eastern Echo Ypsilanti, Michigan 2015-01-11 C.A. Joseph Peters One ought to talk about race like one talks about their mother’s age: very rarely and very discreetly. Given the Census Bureau’s outdated categories, I say it’s time for one of those rare and discreet conversations. In January 2013, Haya…
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I Am a Blacktina: Reflections on Being an Afro-Cuban in the U.S. For Harriet 2014-12-28 Felice León I am a Blacktina. Get it: Black [La]tina? A friend gave me this nickname years ago, and it has stuck. My father is Afro-Cuban, and my mother Afro-American. I identify with both cultures and have tried to balance…
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Meet Afro-Latina Trailblazer, Crystal Roman, Founder of The Black Latina Movement Boriqua Chicks: A Fresh, Urban, Afro-Latina Perspective 2014-11-19 Crystal Shaniece Roman, CEO & Founder of The Black Latina Movement, LLC has used her personal experience with identity to fuel several creative projects that recognize and celebrate Black Latinas. From theatrical productions to a web series,…
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White? Black? A Murky Distinction Grows Still Murkier The New York Times 2014-12-24 Carl Zimmer In 1924, the State of Virginia attempted to define what it means to be white. The state’s Racial Integrity Act, which barred marriages between whites and people of other races, defined whites as people “whose blood is entirely white, having…
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Anti-intellectualism is taking over the US The Guardian 2012-05-18 Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University, New York, New York The rise in academic book bannings and firings is compounded by the US’s growing disregard for scholarship itself Recently, I found out that my work is mentioned in a book that has…