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: Asian Diaspora
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Mixed marriages are changing the way we think about our race The Washington Post 2016-02-17 Jeff Guo For all the talk about immigrants refusing to embrace American ways — a defining controversy of this GOP presidential race — the evidence has been scant. The National Academies of Sciences deflated most of the myths in a…
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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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Invisible Bridges: Life Along the Chinese-Russian Border The New Yorker 2016-02-09 Peter Hessler In the summer of 2014, Davide Monteleone, an Italian photographer who had lived in Moscow for more than a decade, began to travel to the Russian-Chinese border in search of something that felt real and reliable. “I had been covering the uprising…
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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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Voices from Mixed Asian America MJ Engel Columbia University, New York, New York 2016-01-27 Hearing the unfiltered voices of the mixed Asian experience remains a novelty. “Voices from Mixed Asian America” is a compilation of interviews conducted with eight mixed race individuals. This series amplifies and connects the personal experiences of mixed Asian voices and…
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Another Win for a Player Getting in Touch With Her Japanese Roots The New York Times 2016-01-21 Ben Rothenberg Naomi Osaka signed autographs after her 6-4, 6-4 victory over 18th-seeded Elina Svitolina at the Australian Open on Thursday. Credit Issei Kato/Reuters MELBOURNE, Australia — Naomi Osaka (大坂 なおみ) liked to think she had a universal…
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Race Unknown Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2011-02-21 Katti Gray Bryan Lee, a senior at the University of California, Irvine, has noticed that some of his classmates adamantly declare their multiracial heritage while others choose not to identify themselves as being any particular ethnicity. The half-Korean, half-White biomedical engineering major is co-president of the university’s…
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Two Systems or A Reading Towards New Work The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (Sherr Room) Cambridge, Massachusetts 2015-10-28 (Published 2015-11-06) Sarah Howe, the 2015–2016 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, presents “Two Systems,” a new sequence of poems in which she explores the historical encounter between China and the West.
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Oklahoma cop gets life for sex crimes against the poor USA Today 2016-01-21 Melanie Eversley, Breaking News Reporter Former officer Daniel Holtzclaw was sentenced to 263 years in prison after he was convicted in December of 18 counts, including first-degree rape. A former Oklahoma City police officer was sentenced Thursday to spend the rest of…
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Preview of DREAM OF THE WATER CHILDREN by Wendy Cheng 2Leaf Press: A Small Press with Big Ideas! New York, New York 2016-01-18 Wendy Cheng, Assistant Professor School of Social Transformation Faculty Arizona State University A Black-Japanese Amerasian reflects on life in the present, with the traces of wars and their aftermaths. In Dream of…