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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Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems Graywolf Press 2010-08-31 192 pages Trim Size: 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-55597-567-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55597-650-7 Thomas Sayers Ellis, co-Founder The Dark Room Collective, Cambridge, Massachusetts The ambitious, combative, and spot-on new poetry book by Thomas Sayers Ellis, author of the award-winning The Maverick Room Skin, Inc. is Thomas Sayers…
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Poet Natasha Trethewey Explores Public and Personal Histories of Race in America The Aspen Institute 2015-01-13 Caroline Tory, Program Coordinator Aspen Words, Aspen Colorado On a recent winter night, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey addressed an Aspen Words audience in Aspen, CO, on the intersection between art and activism. “[I am] a poet interested not…
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Young Artists: Saya Woolfalk W November 2008 Timothy McCahill For the last two years Saya Woolfalk has practically lived in No Place, the futuristic work she is creating through painting, sculpture and video. So it’s not surprising that when she talks about it, the line between fact and fiction seems a little fuzzy. More than…
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Al Madrigal’s New Special ‘Half Like Me’ Is What Latinos Have Been Waiting For The Huffington Post 2015-01-13 Ana Maria Benedetti Al Madrigal goes on a journey of self-discovery… starting with how to pronounce his own name. In his new one-hour special “Half Like Me,” premiering on Fusion on January 22, The Daily Show’s senior…
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Don’t put race in a box The Eastern Echo Ypsilanti, Michigan 2015-01-11 C.A. Joseph Peters One ought to talk about race like one talks about their mother’s age: very rarely and very discreetly. Given the Census Bureau’s outdated categories, I say it’s time for one of those rare and discreet conversations. In January 2013, Haya…
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Critical Mixed-Race In Transnational Perspective: The US, China, And Hong Kong, 1842-1943 Center for East Asian Studies Lathrop East Asia Library, Room 224 Stanford University 518 Memorial Way, Stanford, California Thursday, 2015-01-15, 16:15-17:30 PST (Local Time) Emma Teng, T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations Massachusetts Institute of Technology This paper will examine…
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Carl N. Degler, Scholarly Champion of the Oppressed in America, Dies at 93 The New York Times 2015-01-10 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent For four decades, as a Stanford University scholar, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a commentator who envisioned a future that did not repeat the mistakes of the past, Carl N. Degler endeavored…