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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International Blackness vs. Homegrown Negroes: Lupita, Chimamanda, Thandie and me Alternet 2014-02-23 Esther Armah “She is very white!” Revered Swedish film critic Jannike Åhlund watches a clip of actress Thandie Newton playing Olanna, one of the Nigerian twin sisters in the film adaptation of the award-winning novel Half of a Yellow Sun by Nigerian author…
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Mapping Interracial/Interethnic Married-Couple Households in the United States: 2010 United States Census Bureau Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-04-11 through 2013-04-13 Tallese D. Johnson, Population Division U.S. Census Bureau Rose M. Kreider, Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division U.S. Census Bureau Introduction This poster examines the…
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Black history month is a token tribute, but Afro-Latinos don’t even have that The Guardian 2014-02-26 Icess Fernandez Rojas The US has a designated celebration for about every group, but if you’re of mixed heritage, you’re on your own I cringe every time February rolls around. For me, black history month has become predictable. First,…
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Afro Latinos’ Mixed Identity Can Leave Them Out of the Mix NBC News 2014-02-27 Patricia Guadalupe and Suzanne Gamboa Afro Latino Marco Davis laughed when he recalled the lengths he went to keep in touch with black and Latino alumni groups when he graduated from Yale University. “One year I would put down that I…
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A Roanoke Island Colony Remembered Chowan Discovery Group 2014-02-25 Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director The Winton Triangle has ties to the subject of the latest Chowan Discovery-nominated marker, that of the Roanoke Island Freedmen’s Colony. During the Civil War when the colony existed, several Winton Triangle men enlisted in the United States Colored Troops in…