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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Q&A: Sophomore creates group to discuss mixed-race issues The Ithican Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York 2016-08-24 Celisa Calacal, Opinion Editor Sophomore Walt Martzen created the group IC Mixed, where students can discuss mixed-race issues, a topic Martzen believes is often missing from conversations on race and identity. Jade Cardichon/The Ithacan This semester, sophomore Walt Martzen…
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The mystery of the Melungeons The Economist 2016-08-24 VARDY, TENNESSEE AND BIG STONE GAP, VIRGINIA The story of an Appalachian people offers a timely parable of the nuanced history of race in America HEAD into Sneedville from the Clinch River, turn left at the courthouse and crawl up Newman’s Ridge. Do not be distracted by…
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The JewAsian Phenomenon: Raising Jewish-Asian Families JewishBoston: The Vibe of the Tribe 2016-08-10 Judy Bolton-Fasman, Culture Reporter A new book, as well as a conversation with its authors, sheds light on a growing segment of the Jewish population—Jewish-Asian children who are raised as Jews. Helen Kim and Noah Leavitt are the authors of “JewAsian: Race,…
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On passing, wishing for darker skin, and finding your people: A conversation between two mulattos Fusion 2015-06-15 Collier Meyerson In 10th grade, I auditioned for the role of Julie in the musical Show Boat, one of the most famous portrayals of the tragic mulatto trope. I was cast, instead, as Queenie, the mammy. I deserved…
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Episode 096: Nicholas Guyatt, The Origins of Racial Segregation in the United States Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early American History 2016-08-22 Liz Covart, Host and Historian Boston, Massachusetts Ever wonder how the United States’ problem with race developed and why early American reformers didn’t find a way to fix it during the earliest…
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Katherine Johnson, the NASA Mathematician Who Advanced Human Rights with a Slide Rule and Pencil Vanity Fair September 2016 Charles Bolden, Administrator National Aeronautics and Space Administration Katherine Johnson, photographed at Fort Monroe, in Hampton, Virginia. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz NASA chief Charles Bolden recalls the historic trajectory of the “human computer” who played a…
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Nicholas Guyatt’s ‘Bind Us Apart’ Book Reviews The New York Times 2016-04-29 Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Columbia University, New York, New York BIND US APART How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation By Nicholas Guyatt Illustrated. 403 pp. Basic Books. $29.99. Half a century ago, inspired by the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown…
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Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation Basic Books 2016-04-26 416 pages Hardcover ISBN 13: 978-0-465-01841-3 Nicholas Guyatt, University Lecturer in American History Cambridge University The surprising and counterintuitive origins of America’s racial crisis Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that “all men are…