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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2 Hapa Parents and 19 Hapa artists: Our Visit to War Baby / Love Child at the Wing Luke Multiracial Asian Families: Parenting around race, ethnicity and what it means to be mixed Asian Sunday, 2014-01-12 Sharon H Chang Cold, rain. Gray-stained morning. Husband and I are sitting in the car at 5 till, draining…
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“A Lot Like You” ~ Where Will Your Cultural Journey Take You? Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2014-01-15, 20:00Z (15:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Eliaichi Kimaro, Filmmaker On today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio, we will meet Activist-turned-filmmaker Eliaichi Kimaro. As the director of 9elephants productions, Eli produces videos for non-profits about social…
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A Tie That Binds Across Cultures The New York Times 2014-01-10 Booming’s “Making It Last” column profiles baby boomer couples who have been together 25 years or more. Bob and Chiyoko Bermant met in 1973 as graduate students at the University of Kansas. Bob was majoring in psychology, and Chiyoko, who is Japanese, was studying…
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Rite Of “Passing” CBS News 2007-10-28 Russ Mitchell For 23 years Bliss Broyard was white, living in tony Greenwich, Conn., isolated from people of color and influenced by the racial attitudes of her surroundings, reports CBS News’ Russ Mitchell. Asked if she used to tell black jokes, Broyard said: “I did, in high school and…
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Concubinage Law Reaches Negro Only Lafayette Adviser Lafayette, Louisiana Friday, 1910-04-29 page 1, columns 3-4 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress) By Vote of 3 to 2 Supreme Court Upholds Decision of the Lower Court. LOUISIANA STATUTE HELD TO BE OF LIMITED SCOPE. Mulattoes, Quadroons and Octaroons Not included—Opinion Read by Justice…
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A Daughter Discovers Branches of the Family Tree Pruned by Her Father The New York Times 2007-11-07 Mimi Read NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 6 — In a white-box living room in an apartment on lower St. Charles Avenue here, the dining table was set for a family party: plastic bowls of chips, dip and salsa; a…
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The Bots Are Taking Over The New York Times Magazine 2013-12-20 Julie Bosman Photographs by Rebecca Smeyne Mikaiah and Anaiah Lei, the brothers from Los Angeles who make up the band the Bots, have been writing and playing rock songs together for seven years. Now 20 and 17, they are on the cusp of stardom…
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The Mixed Marriage The New York Times 2014-01-11 Interview by Lise Funderburg Lise Funderburg, a journalist, interviewed Yael Ben-Zion, a photographer raised in Israel, about her new book, “Intermarried,” published by Kehrer, which features families from the Washington Heights neighborhood where she lives with her French husband and 5-year-old twins. Q. What inspired this project?…
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Yael Ben-Zion uses photography and text to reflect on intermarriage.