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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Love Across the Color Line: Remembering Alan Kaplan KCET TV Burbank, California 2015-09-10 Erin Aubry Kaplan Fourteen years ago I wrote an article for Salon.com published for Valentine’s Day about how I met my husband, Alan Kaplan. I ended the article on a cautionary note: our hugely improbable, racially romantic story did not mean that…
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The twisted irony of the NYPD wrongly assaulting and detaining black tennis star James Blake The Daily Kos 2015-09-10 Shawn King Yeah. This really happened. Retired black tennis star James Blake, in an NYPD double-fault, was slammed to a Manhattan sidewalk and handcuffed by a white cop in a brutal case of mistaken identity. The…
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Police Tactics in Harsh Glare After Arrest of James Blake The New York Times 2015-09-10 Benjamin Mueller, Al Baker and Liz Robbins A New York Police Department officer was stripped of his gun and badge as Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William J. Bratton issued swift apologies on Thursday for the rough arrest…
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Multiracial and Proud: Meet the Americans Who Check More Than One Box The Daily Good 2015-09-10 Demetria Irwin Millennials are the largest, most educated, and most diverse generation to date: 58 percent are white, 21 percent are Hispanic, 14 percent are Black, and 6 percent identify as Asian/Pacific Islander. They’re also the most multiracial. The…
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All Mixed Up: examining mixed children and unions The Source Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Volume 16, Issue 5 (September 8-22, 2015) Florence Hwang Sharon Chang says she embodies “mixedness.” Chang’s thoughtful examination about growing up multiracial at this year’s Hapapalooza festival: “Raising Mixed Kids: Family Workshop” will be at the Heartwood Community Café, Sept. 19…
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Spirituality can help us to transcend race consciousness The Orlando Sentinel Orlando, Florida 2015-09-02 Charles Michael Byrd, Guest columnist As someone whom society views as racially mixed, traversing a spiritual path was indispensable for me to achieve happiness by resolving the internal conflicts arising from America’s obsession with the politics of racial identity.. Ultimately the…
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The Lives of Frederick Douglass Harvard University Press February 2016 350 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 9 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674055810 Robert S. Levine, Professor of English and a Distinguished University Professor University of Maryland Frederick Douglass’s fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of…
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Privilege And Pressure: A Memoir Of Growing Up Black And Elite In ‘Negroland’ Code Switch: Fronties of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-09-08 Terry Gross, Host Fresh Air Growing up in the 1950s, Margo Jefferson was part of Chicago’s black upper class. The daughter of a prominent doctor and his socialite wife, Jefferson…