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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Who is to blame for Donald Trump’s victory? New Statesman 2016-11-09 Helen Lewis, Deputy Editor A narrative that attributes Trump’s triumph to the “working class” forgets the role of racism, sexism and the right-wing media. As it became clear that Donald Trump had won Pennsylvania, putting the presidency in the grasp of those tiny hands,…
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In An Election Defined By Race, How Do We Define Race? FiveThirtyEight 2016-11-06 Farai Chideya, Senior Writer When I was younger, I had an idea for a satire in which a group of rogue genealogists would get blood samples from racially incendiary white politicians. They’d run DNA tests on them to see if they were…
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Behind 2016’s Turmoil, a Crisis of White Identity The Interpreter The New York Times 2016-11-01 Amanda Taub Call it the crisis of whiteness. White anxiety has fueled this year’s political tumult in the West: Britain’s surprising vote to exit the European Union, Donald J. Trump’s unexpected capture of the Republican presidential nomination in the United…
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How do you become “white” in America? The Correspondent September 2016 Sarah Kendzior, Flyover Country Correspondent An immigrant family looks out over the New York skyline as they arrive in the U.S. from Germany aboard the S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam. Photo by Getty Trump has retweeted white supremacist groups and has the backing of the Ku…
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Review of Jonathan Kahn, Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in the Post-Genomic Age The American Journal of Bioethics Volume 15, 2015 – Issue 10 pages W4-W5 DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2015.1067339 Nathan Nobis, Associate Professor of Philosophy Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia In 2005 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug…
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Congress Should Tell the OMB to Stop Dividing the Country The Heritage Foundation Issue Brief #4614 on Office Of Management And Budget 2016-10-11 Mike Gonzalez, Senior Fellow The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy On the first day of Congress’s recess, the Obama Administration recommended the most sweeping changes…