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-Race Politics: Bill de Blasio’s 2013 New York City Mayoral Campaign University of Michigan Haven Hall, Room 4701 505 State Street Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, 2016-03-14, 17:30 CDT (Local Time) Michelle May-Curry American Culture Please join the Black Humanities Collective as we workshop a presentation by Michelle May-Curry, a doctoral student in American Culture. Dinner…
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Before People Called Me A Spic, They Called Me A Nigger Medium 2016-03-11 Pablo Guzmán It was a throwaway line I used. Deliberately. Speaking to mostly Latino and African-American audiences. Back in the day. “Before people called me a spic, they called me a nigger.” And it hit the mark. The hoots, applause, whistles and…
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“Kiss me, my slave owners were Irish” Medium 2015-03-16 Liam Hogam As many of you already know, I have engaged with the “we were slaves too!” narrative on multiple forums and platforms for the past few months. Now I plan to explore some of the uncomfortable truths that this mythology tends to obscure. This Saint…
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“A Hindu is white although he is black”: Hindu Alterity and the Performativity of Religion and Race between the United States and the Caribbean Comparative Studies in Society and History Volume 58, Issue 01, January 2016 pages 181-210 DOI: 10.1017/S0010417515000614 Alexander Rocklin Department of Religious Studies Willamette University, Salem, Oregon This essay uses the controversies…
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A Son of the Wealthiest Planter in the South Convicted of a Great Crime. The Anderson Intellingencer Anderson Court House., South Carolina Thursday Morning, 1875-05-20 (Volume X, Number 44) page 1, column 3 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. United States Library of Congress. “William S. Calhoun, convicted of forgery on evidence of his quadroon…
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Unpublished Black Asian History Grits and Sushi: my musings on okinawa, race, militarization, and blackness 2016-03-08 Mitzi Uehara Carter This photo captures a quiet story of a multicultural South, black philanthropy, transpacific militarism and its hauntings, the organizing strength of of Black women, and the power of Black journalism and photography. How does this one…
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EXCLUSIVE: Misty Copeland on overcoming adversity, fighting for diversity in ballet The State Columbia, South Carolina 2016-03-09 Erin Shaw Misty Copeland Provided photo The prima ballerina talks body image and being named the first black woman principal dancer Copeland comes to Columbia for a ballet fundraiser with Elgin native Brooklyn Mack There was time when…