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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Category: United States
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Colin Kaepernick and the Question of Who Gets to Be Called a ‘Patriot’ First Words The New York Times Magazine 2016-09-12 Wesley Morris, Critic-At-Large Citizenship is citizenship, until appearances get in the way. The world now knows, for instance, that Colin Kaepernick, a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, is protesting racial injustice — all…
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American Segregation Started Long Before the Civil War What It Means to Be American: A National Conversation Hosted by The Smithsonian’s and Zócalo Public Square 2016-09-12 Nicholas Guyatt, University Lecturer in American History Cambridge University How the Founders’ Revolutionary Ideology Laid the Groundwork Segregation remains an intractable force in American life, more than 60 years…
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Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860 University of North Carolina Press 2002 360 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 11 illus., notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 0-8078-2726-6 Paperback ISBN 0-8078-5401-8 eBook ISBN: 9780807862155 Diane Batts Morrow, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies University of Georgia, Athens…
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Racism faced by black nuns in America called ‘dangerous memory’ Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse 2016-08-18 Andrew Nelson, Catholic News Service In early American history black women could be accepted into orders of nuns only if they could “pass for white,” and later they faced significant racial prejudice. Despite all that, they became role models…
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Books in Brief: Nonfiction The New York Times 1997-10-26 Douglas A. Sylva The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America. By Jon Michael Spencer. New York University, $24.95. Many members of minority groups have long argued that society must recognize and accept an individual’s racial identity for that individual to enjoy feelings of self-esteem.…
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4 Ways Parents Can Support Their Mixed Race Children Everyday Feminism 2016-01-05 Jennifer Loubriel According to my mom, when my brother was around four or five, my Black (African-American) paternal grandfather put a plate of rice and beans in front of him. My brother immediately burst into tears and asked, “Why do the beans look…
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Herriman: Cartoonist who equalled Cervantes The Telegraph 2007-07-07 Sarah Boxer Sarah Boxer marvels at the world of George Herriman, the creator of the ludicrously imaginative comic strip Krazy Kat We call him “Cat,” We call him “Crazy” yet is he neither. – George Herriman on the title character of Krazy Kat There is no comic…
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Surrealism, Non-Normative Sexualities, and Racial Identities in Popular Culture: the Case of the Newspaper Comic Strip Krazy Kat Revista Comunicación Number 11, Volume 11 (2013) pages 51-66 Jesus Jiménez-Varea, Professor University of Seville, Seville, Spain In Krazy Kat, George Herriman painted with humorous strokes the endless variations of a sexual pantomime that challenged the boundaries…