Mixed Race Studies

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  • mxd kd mixtape

    In his debut chapbook “mxd kd mix tape,” Malcolm Friend offers us a speaker on the fringe of becoming. If he were a superhero this would be his origin story. The musicality & rhythm that is promised in the title more than delivers, but what Friend also delivers on are poems forged within the many…

  • My Mother Is White. I Am Not: On Being Biracial Without Identity Issues

    Here is where I point out some facts about myself. I am mixed. I’m the product of a Caucasian woman from France and a black man from Alabama. I will tell you, without hesitation, that I am biracial.

  • A Way of Sharing

    Shortly after keynote speaker Lacey Schwartz took to the podium, she made an emphatic statement: “Tell the truth about things that are hard to tell the truth about.” If that had been the case, her life would have been less complicated, and she would have known far sooner exactly who she was.

  • Does Race Matter in America’s Most Diverse ZIP Codes?

    The Original Red Onion sits in one of the country’s most racially diverse ZIP codes: 94591, in Vallejo, Calif. About 30 miles north of Oakland, it is the rare place in the United States where black, white, Asian and Hispanic people not only coexist in nearly equal numbers, but actually connect.

  • The Concept of “Passing”…

    It’s a phenomenon unique to communities of color – those with very light skin “passing” for white, particularly for African Americans, during the Jim Crow era.

  • Some Social Differences on the Basis of Race Among Puerto Ricans

    Puerto Ricans are a multiracial people. This is given by the fact that the Puerto Rican population is composed of people from different categories of socially differentiated and defined racial groups, and also because not an insignificant number of Puerto Rican individuals share ancestry derived from multiple racial groups. Yet, the analysis of social difference…

  • Do Not Pass

    Do Not Pass Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2010-02-16 Touré This may come as a shock to you, especially if you look at whiteness as a boon and blackness as a burden, but I have never once wished to be white. If a fairy godfather came to me and said I could switch…

  • Trump Administration Delays Decision On Race, Ethnicity Data For Census

    A spokesperson for OMB could not provide any information about the delay.

  • Why calling Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas’ is a slur against all mixed-race Americans

    It’s part of the long history of erasing people of mixed heritage.

  • WSW: Crispus Attucks And A “Blank Slate” In History

    Western Michigan University History Professor Mitch Kachun says his book is about Crispus Attucks, one of the men, killed at the Boston Massacre in 1770. But he says “First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory” also raises questions about who’s included in history, and who is ignored.