Mixed Race Studies

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  • See How They Love One Another – #BlackLivesMatterSunday

    See How They Love One Another – #BlackLivesMatterSunday Grace Sandra: Always Grace. Always Advocate. Always Hope. 2014-12-13 Frank Robinson, Retired Pastor and author of Letters To A Mixed Race Son Around 260 AD the second of two great plagues killed much of the world. It was estimated two thirds of Alexandria died as result. Frightened…

  • The new threat: ‘Racism without racists’

    The new threat: ‘Racism without racists’ Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-11-27 John Blake They showed people a photograph of two white men fighting, one unarmed and another holding a knife. Then they showed another photograph, this one of a white man with a knife fighting an unarmed African-American man. When they asked people to identify…

  • On Mixed Privilege

    I’ve been thinking a lot lately about whether there is such a thing as ‘mixed privilege’.

  • Trayvon, Postblackness, and the Postrace Dilemma

    Trayvon, Postblackness, and the Postrace Dilemma boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture Volume 40, Number 3 (Fall 2013) pages 139-161 DOI: 10.1215/01903659-2367072 Richard Purcell, Assistant Professor of English Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania If President Barack Obama crystallizes the intersection of postrace and postblack idealism, nothing has exposed the fraught relationship between…

  • Trayvon Martin and Making Whiteness Visible

    If there’s one good thing to come out of the George Zimmerman verdict, it’s the acknowledgement of white privilege

  • This is the speech we’ve been waiting for

    This is the speech we’ve been waiting for Politico 2013-07-19 Anthea Butler, Associate Professor of Religion University of Pennsylvania President Obama’s surprise remarks Friday about Trayvon Martin, race in America and the Zimmerman trial will be remembered far longer than his “race” speech in March 2008 in Philadelphia. That speech, entitled “A More Perfect Union,”…

  • Racism, White Supremacy and Biracial/Multiraciality (2011)

    From my September 2011 talk at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. In this snippet, I respond to a question about how we should understand or think about biracial and multiracial folks’ experiences in a system of racism/white supremacy.

  • Privilege check, one two, one too…

    Privilege check, one two, one too… Mixed in Canada 2013-04-01 MIC is taking on “Mixed Privilege” in an effort to decolonize & deconstruct the various social privileges that some of us may benefit from. Recognizing our privilege is arguably one of the most important steps in anti-oppression work, as it allows us to connect in…

  • Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism

    Questions the ramifications of multiracialism for progressive social change.

  • Scot Nakagawa: Dismantling the Fulcrum of White Supremacy

    Scot Nakagawa: Dismantling the Fulcrum of White Supremacy GRITtv 2012-08-24 Laura Flanders, Host Scot Nakagawa, Senior Parner ChangeLab Race, according to activist and writer Scot Nakagawa, was an idea created originally to justify the enslavement of a people, and has displayed pernicious staying power in the centuries since. That’s why, as Nakagawa explains in this…