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: United States
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Acclaimed novelist Joseph Boyden faces controversy surrounding his heritage but there is a long history in North American of blurred lines.
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An Artist Reinvents Herself to Mine the Fictions of America Hyperallergic 2017-01-09 Alicia Eler Genevieve Gaignard makes the personal political while also creating new American mythologies. LOS ANGELES — In the lead-up to a Trump presidency, the worst possible outcome for an America that has come so far in the past 100 years in terms…
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She’s not ashamed of who she is but in Baltimore it’s easier to be a white girl with a black girl’s ass than to be a black girl who looks white or any other kind of black girl for that matter…
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In Roxane Gay’s Difficult Women, you’re either difficult or you’re dead Vox 2017-01-03 Constance Grady, Culture Writer When Roxane Gay picks up a label, she’ll play with it, rip it apart a little, break it down, and finally embrace it. She did it in 2014 with her essay collection, Bad Feminist, which explored what it…
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From undocumented men named Angel, to angels falling from the sky, Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s gripping debut collection, The Verging Cities, is filled with explorations of immigration and marriage, narco-violence and femicide, and angels in the domestic sphere. Deeply rooted along the US-México border in the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, these…
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Episode 199 – Michael Tisserand Virtual Memories: The chief of the Inner Station 2017-01-02 Gil Roth, Host “I always feel like Herriman’s a a step ahead of me. When I read Krazy Kat I think I know what I’m reading; the next week I read the same strip and I realize I’m reading something different…
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Who Is Katherine Johnson? National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 2016-12-30 Heather S. Deiss NASA Educational Technology Services Denise Miller NASA Educational Technology Services Katherine Johnson Credits: Katherine Johnson This article is part of the NASA Knows! (Grades 5-8) series. Katherine Johnson is an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA from 1953 until 1986. She was a human computer.…