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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Puerto Rico’s colonial relationship with the United States and its history of intermixture of native, African, and Spanish inhabitants has prompted inconsistent narratives about race and power in the colonial territory.
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Seattle’s multiracial identity evolves along with census The Seattle Times 2016-08-18 Gene Balk Now that Americans can select more than one racial category, we rank high nationally in terms of multiracial population and percentage. TODAY — WHEN NEARLY 10 million Americans identify as multiracial — it’s strange to think that just a few decades ago,…
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Richard Pryor’s Daughter Opens Up About The Racism Her Family Faced In Beverly Hills The Huffington Post 2016-08-18 Lisa Capretto The Oprah Winfrey Network “I’m a product of this thing that everyone was against.” When Rain Pryor was born in 1969, her father, Richard Pryor, had already begun transitioning from a relatively mild joke-telling comedian…
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The Memoir of a White-Passing Activist Odyssey 2016-08-16 Haley Arthur My experiences with being mixed race and trying to use my white privilege to help liberate myself and others. “Oh, you’re mixed? Wow, I would never have guessed. Now it all makes sense.” Yes, this is something that has been said to me multiple times,…
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White People, Stop Saying You’re ‘Black On The Inside’ The Establishment 2016-08-15 Natasha Diaz White and Wrong White people are consistent; I’ll give them that. They take Black culture as the blueprint for their fashion, entertainment, music, and new hip terms to enhance their Urban Dictionary posts. They colonize neighborhoods, forcing out people who have…
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How Tessa Thompson Became A Modern Marvel BuzzFeed 2016-07-20 Anita Badejo, Associate Features Editor At a time when Hollywood is finally developing the kinds of projects for actors of color that had traditionally been out of reach, Tessa Thompson’s ascent to the A-list isn’t just welcome — it’s necessary. How can she embody this pivotal…
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Eyes Wide Cut: The American Origins of Korea’s Plastic Surgery Craze The Wilson Quarterly Fall 2015 Laura Kurek South Korea’s obsession with cosmetic surgery can be traced back to an American doctor, raising uneasy questions about beauty standards. At sixteen stories high, the doctor’s office looms over the neon-colored metropolis. Within the high-rise, consultation offices,…
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Like a human tsunami, World War II brought two million American servicemen to the South Pacific where they left a human legacy of some thousands of children. “Mothers’ Darlings of the South Pacific” traces the intimate relationships that existed in the wartime South Pacific between U.S. servicemen and Indigenous women, and considers the fate of…
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Faithfully Podcast 8: Asian Americans, Yellowface, and Pursuing Whiteness Faithfully Magazine: At the Intersection of Race, Culture & Christianity 2016-05-28 Chinese/Filipino Author Bruce Reyes-Chow Shares Perspectives on Navigating Race The Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow joined the Faithfully Podcast crew recently to share his thoughts and observations on some issues Asian Americans face when it comes to…