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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A new ‘diversity index’ and a subtle change in a question have resulted in an undercount of whites.
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EXCLUSIVE! MASC Analysis of Census 2020: Latinos Make Up A Majority of the Multiracial Population Multiracial Americans of Southern California 2021-08-23 The recent release of Census 2020 demographic data has enabled us to envision a new version of the country we live in. The following charts and discussion have been prepared to tell a story…
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Some news coverage of the latest 2020 census results may have led you to think the white population in the U.S. is shrinking or in decline.
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Maria Garcia and Maria Hinojosa are both Mexican American, both mestiza, and both relatively light-skinned. But Maria Hinojosa strongly identifies as a woman of color, whereas Maria Garcia has stopped doing so. So in this episode, we’re asking: How did they arrive at such different places?
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The dramatic shift in racial identity among Latinos came after the census offered more options in 2020, giving Latinos the opportunity to officially embrace Indigenous and Black backgrounds.
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Afro-Latinos in the U.S. Economy Lexington Books May 2021 174 pages Trim: 6½ x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4985-4624-9 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4985-4625-6 Michelle Holder, Associate Professor of Economics John Jay College, City University of New York Alan A. Aja, Professor of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Brooklyn College, City University of New York Afro-Latinos in the…
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Adopting a hemispheric perspective, this essay problematizes the construct of latinidad by foregrounding how it reproduces Black erasure.
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At times, my identity feels like an MC Escher lithograph, a thing that cannot be logically coherent as a whole.