Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity and Both/And Belonging
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Category: Social Justice
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This is the problem with using biracial identity as an excuse to be racially neutral. Doing so often results in ignoring both black suffering and the racist political, economic, and social structures which produce black suffering.
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She helped Thurgood Marshall prepare for his Supreme Court fight and later took on de facto school segregation across the North and West.
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For Colin Kaepernick, Writing Is Another Form of Activism Publishers Weekly 2022-03-29 Nathalie op de Beeck, Associate Professor of English Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington Colin Kaepernick, at 34, presides over a multimedia platform for Black and brown people’s empowerment. In 2016, inspired by civil rights heroes, the then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback rocked the NFL…
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Ever since her breakout role in “The Hunger Games,” Amandla Stenberg’s career has gone from strength to strength. Here, the actor talks to Micha Frazer-Carroll about her involvement in the Black Lives Matter movement, how the pandemic has made her re-evaluate her life and why she’s keenly exploring other creative avenues
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Vanessa Ifediora says that growing up black in Northern Ireland was difficult. “Bullying was rife, mostly instigated by the parents who sent their kids into school with a script of what to say to me,” says the Belfast woman. “Children that young only parrot what their parents teach them.
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Senator Braun’s mistake was not that he misunderstood the question; it’s that he understood it all too well. The world he and his colleagues are working toward is one in which the national government defers the question of civil and political rights to the states. And it is in the states, free from federal oversight,…
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As Simone Biles becomes the most decorated athlete in sports, Nkosi tells Document about the implications of Black girls’ success in elite gymnastics, which has historically been used as a tool of oppression.
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For his first solo museum exhibition in France at Palais de Tokyo, Theaster Gates explores America’s dark forgotten past through the interracial exile of Malaga Island.
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The #dontcallmemurzyn campaign, set up to fight against racial discrimination in the aftermath of the controversy, received domestic and international attention. To continue and broaden the movement’s work, its creators have now set up an educational platform called “Black is Polish”.
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21. Fredi’s Migration: Washington’s Forgotten War on Hollywood Chapter in the anthology: Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano and Kalia Brooks Nelson (ed.) (2019-09-12, Open Book Publishers) Printed ISBN: 9781783745654 eBook ISBN: 9791036538070 Pamela Newkirk, Professor of Journalism New York University Fig. 21.1. Portrait of Fredi Washington. Courtesy of…