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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Category: Politics/Public Policy
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Mixed-Race Americans Are on the Rise: Will It Change Communications? New York Women in Communications February 2011 In a new series by The New York Times, titled Race Remixed [Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above], reporter Susan Saulny looks at the impact of one of our country’s fastest-growing demographic groups,…
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Not an “Other” Online Newshour 1997-07-16 Paul Solman, Host Increasingly, many Americans find they don’t easily fit into any racial group. But will adding a new “multiracial” category on the census take away the effectiveness of the count? After a background piece by Betty Ann Bowser, Paul Solman leads a debate. PAUL SOLMAN: Well, what…
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“The Face Is the Road Map”: Vietnamese Amerasians in U.S. Political and Popular Culture, 1980–1988 Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 1 (February 2011) pages 33-68 E-ISSN: 1096-8598; Print ISSN: 1097-2129 Jana K. Lipman, Assistant Professor of History Tulane University During the 1980s, U.S. politicians and the media presented Vietnamese Amerasians as quintessential…
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More students identifying as multiracial Collegiate Times Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) 2011-02-17 Sarah Watson, News Reporter More students pursuing a secondary education identify themselves as multiracial or multiethnic. Students across the nation and in the Virginia Tech community are checking the box “two or more races” when filling out college applications.…
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Columns: Racial lines no longer just black and white The Minnesota Daily University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul 2011-02-21 Lolla Mohammed Nur Clear-cut racial categories restrict how multiracial Americans identify themselves. Based on her appearance, you wouldn’t easily be able to guess University of Minnesota sophomore Mary Taylor‘s racial or ethnic heritage. But if you ask…
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The Race Classification Gap The Huffington Post 2011-02-17 Daniel Arrigg Koh, MBA Student Harvard Business School Growing up as a person of Korean and Lebanese descent, I was proud of my heritage and enjoyed discussing it with my peers. While few had ever met anyone with such an ethnic background before, people were always eager…
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“Two or More Races” or Just Another Category? Open Salon 2011-02-20 Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D. The Department of Education’s “two or more races” category may appeal to some people but this is a slippery slope towards ignoring race altogether. Race still matters. Combating racism still matters. Acknowledging multiracial identities or agreeing to be placed in…