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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Guest Commentary: Student searches for identity outside of race The Ithacan: Serving the Ithaca College community since 1931. Ithaca, New York 2013-02-20 Derek Crossman Senior Derek Crossman struggled to identify as a person of color living in a predominately white community. He argues that as the multiracial population grows, racial constructs should end. Shawn Steiner/The…
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Look! A Zombie! Race and Passing in ‘iZombie’ PopMatters 2015-10-30 Rukmini Pande University of Western Australia iZombie’s “passing” narrative complicates its broader racial politics. As the fall season of US TV swings into gear, the CW’s undead caper iZombie seems poised for an interesting second outing. Helmed by Rob Thomas (of Veronica Mars fame), the…
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A Chosen Exile Think KERA-FM Dallas, Texas 2015-10-28 Krys Boyd, Host and Managing editor Dr. Albert Johnston passed in order to practice medicine. After living as leading citizens in Keene, N.H., the Johnstons revealed their true racial identity, and became national news. (Source: Historical Society of Cheshire County) From the founding of our nation to…
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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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Rachel Dolezal, Alice Jones’ Nipples, the Rhinelander Fortune, and Racist White Fire Fighters Who Tried to Pass for ‘Black’ Indomitable: The Online Blog of Essayist and Cultural Critic Chauncey DeVega 2015-06-17 Chauncey DeVega Alice Beatrice Jones and Leonard “Kip” Rhinelander of Rhinelander v. Rhinelander (1924). I want to extend a sincere thanks to all of…
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I won’t apologize for my blackness. Lake Views: The Award Winning Student Newspaper of Lake Oswego High School Lake Oswego, Oregon 2015-10-07 Camryn Leland It’s not my job to make you feel comfortable. In an article written about the use of the n-word in the NFL it was stated, “The Story of the n-word, in…
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Racial Passing and the Rhinelander Case English 365: The “Great” American Novel: 1900-1965: Prof. VZ College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina 2015-02-10 Brooke Fortune Alice Jones with her parents On page 101 of Passing, Irene references the widely publicized case of Rhinelander vs. Rhinelander (“What if Bellew should divorce Clare? Could he? There was the…
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It is a matter of regret that in organizing the twelfth census it was determined to attempt no separate enumeration of the mulatto element of our population, — using the term in its popular sense, as denoting all persons having any admixture of white and negro blood. It will not do to say that the…