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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MiXed at Cornell Illustrates Diversity of ‘Multiracial Experience’ at Cornell The Cornell Daily Sun Ithaca, New York 2016-04-10 Henry Kanengeiser MiXed at Cornell — a student organization dedicated to creating community among mixed race individuals — will host its first ever Blend Conference in Klarman Hall this weekend. The two-day conference will focus on the…
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Mystery still surrounds ‘Yellow Rose of Texas’ The Houston Chronicle Houston, Texas 2016-04-01 Joe Holley, Native Texan A statue of “Emily Morgan” by Veryl Goodnight stands amidst a garden of yellow roses in an office complex across the street from Memorial City Mall in Houston. Photo: Joe Holley, Joe Holley/Houston Chronicle So, what was happening…
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Thomas Jefferson spent years raping his slave Sally Hemings. A new novel treats their relationship as a love story. Vox 2016-04-08 Constance Grady A new historical novel about Thomas Jefferson is raising eyebrows. Stephen O’Connor’s Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings, which came out on Tuesday, is about our third president’s relationship with Sally Hemings,…
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The ‘Human Computer’ Behind the Moon Landing Was a Black Woman The Daily Beast 2016-04-07 Nathan Place Image of Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1971. In an age of racism and sexism, Katherine Johnson broke both barriers at NASA. She calculated the trajectory of man’s first trip to the moon, and was…
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Misty Copeland Opens Up About ‘Lack of Diversity’ in Ballet World Variety 2016-04-09 Misty Copeland spoke from the heart at Variety’s third annual Power of Women New York event about her journey “from living in a motel to dancing on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House.”
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Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings: A Novel Viking Books 2016-04-05 624 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780525429968 Ebook ISBN: 9780698410336 Stephen O’Connor A debut novel about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in whose story the conflict between the American ideal of equality and the realities of slavery and racism played out in the most tragic of…
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Jussie Smollett Talks About Growing Up in a Biracial Home and Pranking His ‘Empire’ Costars ABC News 2016-04-08 Angela Williams, Entertainment TV Producer There is lots of great music, loads of drama and plenty of surprises packed into each episode of Fox’s “Empire.” And much of it is centered around break-out star Jussie Smollett who…
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Allyson Hobbs discusses A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Monday, 2016-04-11, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University Allyson Hobbs discusses the paperback release of her book A Chosen Exile:…
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This is very hard for me to write because I don’t know how to begin.