Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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When my friend posted an adorable picture of her son with a black Santa in New York City, I was drawn to the idea of visiting a Santa who reflected my family’s skin tones. I’m black, and my 3-year-old son’s father is white. I am raising him as a single mom with the help of…
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China Machado, Breakthrough Model Until the End, Dies at 86 The New York Times On The Runway 2016-12-19 Vanessa Friedman China Machado, the first non-Caucasian to appear in the pages of an American glossy fashion magazine and a model who broke not only the race barrier but also the age barrier, died on Sunday in…
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Avoiding the One-Drop Rule The Harvard Advocate Fall 2016 Eli Lee This past January, I attended a concert at Philadelphia’s First Unitarian Church. The audience in the church’s dimly lit basement was tattooed, bedecked in social justice slogans and, like most punk show crowds, predominantly white. Two hours into the show, a local hardcore band…
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Opinion of Judge Leon M. Bazile (January 22, 1965) Source: Encyclopedia Virginia In this written judgment, dated January 22, 1965, Leon M. Bazile, judge of the Caroline County Circuit Court, refuses a motion on behalf of Richard and Mildred Loving to vacate their 1959 conviction for violating the state law that forbids interracial marriage. The…
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What does it mean to be “black enough?” Three women explore their racial identities The Washington Post 2016-12-11 On “Historically Black,” our podcast about black history, narrator Roxane Gay introduces three new voices. “What are you?” “Are you adopted?” “What are you mixed with?” Many photos and stories submitted to “Historically Black,” The Washington Post Tumblr…
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Even today, being biracial in America is not always easy Observer-Reporter Washington County News Washington, Pennsylvania 2016-12-17 Karen Mansfield, Staff Writer Celeste Van Kirk/Observer-Reporter Dontae Monday, a student at Washington & Jefferson College, stands in front of Old Main recently. Koron Harris is used to strangers sneaking glances at her, and she knows why. “They’re…
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The Monoracial Millennium (a parody): Rethinking Mixed Race in the Age of Obama Medium 2016-12-18 Gino M. Pellegrini “The Four Races” from Le Tour de la France par duex enfants (1877) by G. Bruno It sucks to wake up and realize that you’re back out of style — viewed as a promising development in one decade, viewed as an…