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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The day my daughter realized she isn’t white The Washington Post 2015-11-03 Lisa Papademetriou “Mama,” my 4-year-old daughter said. “Did you know that darks and lights didn’t used to be able to go to the same places?” “What?” I asked. It was bedtime, and I was tired. I wondered vaguely how Zara knew so much…
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Koreans and Camptowns: Mixed-Race Adoptees and Camptown Connections David Brower Center 2150 Allston Way Berkeley, California 94704 2015-09-26, 09:00-17:00 PDT (Local Time) In cooperation with the Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley, we were excited to host a one-day conference to learn more about the camptowns that developed alongside American military bases in…
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Biracial Identity: My Choice, Not Society’s The Huffington Post 2015-11-02 Natasha Sim, Law Student, Writer, Animal Lover Being biracial or multiracial is becoming increasingly common in the world, but it is still an unfamiliar concept to many. Many people probably know at least one biracial or multiracial person, but the intricacies of biracialism and multiracialism…
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Neither One Nor The Other: Why I Love Being Mixed-Race Discover Nikkei 2015-10-20 Mia Nakaji Monnier I love those parts that seem incompatible but that, in a person, come together. During my first week of college, I met a guy who, like me, had a long, four-part name. When I told him mine, he said,…
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Rescuing Discarded Images of Everyday Black Life The New York Times 2015-10-20 David Gonzalez, Side Street Columnist Who throws away family photos? How do faded, blurry squares that chronicled weddings, ballgames and goofy moments at home end up abandoned, tossed to the curb or in boxes bought sight unseen at storage auctions? Zun Lee has…
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Defying the Stereotype of the Broken Black Family The New Yorker 2015-10-12 Lucy McKeon For his series “Father Figure,” begun in 2011, the photographer Zun Lee created quiet and tender portraits of black fathers with their children: one kisses the tiny hand of his baby while riding the subway; another goofs around at bedtime, his…
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“Asian Latinos” and the U.S. Census AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community Volume 10, Number 2 (2012) pages 119-138 DOI: 10.17953/appc.10.2.m04004632k7n353l Robert Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Kevin Escudero, Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Professor Emerita Department of…