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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‘Negroland’ by Margo Jefferson The Boston Globe 2015-09-05 Donna Bailey Nurse While a student at University High in Chicago in the early 1960s, Margo Jefferson was introduced to the essays of James Baldwin. The future New York Times drama critic and Pulitzer Prize winner was struck by passages in “Notes of a Native Son’’: “‘One…
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The top 13 Jewish newsmakers of 5775 JTA: Jewish Telegraphic Agency 2015-08-26 Julie Wiener (JTA) — With the Jewish year winding down, here’s a look back at 13 Jews who repeatedly made the news in 5775. Whether you love them or hate them — or your feelings are purely pareve — it’s hard to deny…
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Negroland: A Memoir Pantheon 2015-09-08 256 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0307378453 eBook ISBN: Margo Jefferson At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac—here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author’s rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing itself from…
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Multiracial Gen Z And The Future Of Marketing Media Post 2015-09-03 Jose Villa, Founder and president Sensis, Los Angeles, California Millennials are generally believed to be the most ethnically and racially diverse generation in American history. Hispanics (20%), African-Americans (14%) and Asians (6%) make up 40% of the total millennial population. This diversity underpins the…
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Louise Erdrich on her fiction: ‘I’m writing out of the mixture of cultures’ The Guardian 2015-09-05 Bridey Heing Receiving the Library of Congress prize for American fiction, Erdrich spoke of how her writing emerged from the ‘great loss’ of Native Americans Novelist Louise Erdrich was presented with the Library of Congress prize for American fiction…
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Chosen by Mississippi Democrats, Shy Trucker Is at a Crossroad The New York Times 2015-09-07 Campbell Robertson, Southern Correspondent Robert Gray (Photo source: WLBT-TV) JACKSON, Miss. — Only three people who had ever met this man, Robert Gray, knew that he was running in the primary for governor of Mississippi. There were the two volunteers…
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Bottles, Bubbles, and Blood: Jean Toomer and the Limits of Racial Epidermalism Modernism/modernity Volume 22, Number 2, April 2015 pages 279-302 DOI: 10.1353/mod.2015.0041 Catherine Keyser, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature University of South Carolina In an unpublished 1935 memoir, Jean Toomer reminisces about his job as a soda jerk in high school and…
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Suit filed over mix-up at Downers Grove sperm bank is dismissed The Chicago Tribune 2015-09-03 Clifford Ward A judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Ohio woman against a west suburban sperm bank whose clerical error resulted in the birth of her mixed-race daughter. DuPage County Judge Ronald Sutter tossed the suit after lawyers…