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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Almost any given object can be split in half with each half making up 50% of whole. I can only think of one exception. When someone asks if I am half black or half white, I don’t want to give the comfortable response they are looking for. Any answer would imply that my Whiteness and…
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Black Indians Formed the First American Rainbow Coalition The New York Times 1991-03-17 To the Editor: “Census Finds Many Claiming New Identity: Indian” (front-page, March 5) discusses whites who now assert their Indian blood, but fails to mention African-Americans who can claim longer and more legitimate ties to America’s Indian heritage. Many in the New…
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Between black and white Exploring the “Biracial” Experience Race and Society Volume 1, Issue 2, 1998 pages 197–212 DOI: 10.1016/S1090-9524(99)80044-8 Kerry A. Rockquemore Public debate surrounding the 2000 Census has focused on the addition of a multi-racial category. Advocates of this change assume that persons of mixed-race parentage identify as “biracial” or “mixed” and will…
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How Much Black Does It Take to be Considered a Black Woman? My Black Matters 2015-12-27 Zoe Hobson Growing up, I heard “what are you” more times then I can keep track of. Out of innocence my natural response started as “American of course”, and quickly turned into a forced smile and a reluctant “I’m…
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Sage Steele Opens Up About Being A Biracial Woman In Sports Media The Huffington Post 2015-01-21 Justin Block, Associate Sports Editor Juliet Spies-Gans, Editorial Fellow, HuffPost Joe Scarnici via Getty Images Sage Steele speaks onstage at the 2013 espnW: Women + Sports Summit at St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort on Oct. 9, 2013, in Dana…
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‘Daily Show’ host Trevor Noah to be a keynote speaker at Dem retreat Politico 2016-01-22 Lauren French “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah will be a keynote speaker at the House Democratic Caucus issues retreat next week, sources familiar with the event said. Noah will join President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and environmentalist and…