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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Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority The New Press January 2016 272 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-62097-115-4 Steve Phillips A New York Times bestseller, Brown Is the New White takes an unvarnished look at the history of whites and people of color…
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Marvin Rees Becomes UK’s First Elected Black Mayor The Voice 2016-05-14 Marc Wadsworth ‘I’m the descendant of Jamaican slaves. Now I’m mayor of Bristol,’ Rees tells The Voice BRISTOL’S NEW mayor has not only changed the face of the city after winning a huge victory but is also promising a new and inclusive way of…
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Italy Must Confront Its Past to Stave Off the Far-Right Diplomatic Courier: A Global Affairs Media Network 2016-04-13 Fasil Amdetsion, Senior Policy and International Legal Adviser Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia This year’s seasonal springtime rise in temperatures is expected to deepen Europe’s refugee crisis by bringing about a significant rise in the number…
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How My Jewish and Black Grandmothers Found Bernie Jewschool: Progressive Jews & Views 2016-04-30 Jason Salmon Photo above: Jason Salmon (center) and members of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) at an action in New York City for police accountability. Photo courtesy JFREJ. Both of my grandmothers, one a Black woman and the other…
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Marvin Rees’s triumph as mayor defies Bristol’s racist past The Guardian 2016-05-08 Simon Woolley Source: Marvin Rees The descendant of enslaved Africans is now running a former slave city. His symbolic victory gives hope – and should not be forgotten While much has been said, rightly so, about a Muslim now leading London, we must…