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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The Mixed-Race Marriage of Bill de Blasio and Chirlane McCray Georgetown Law Journal of Modern Critical Race Perspectives Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2013-12-08 Harris Davidson On November 5, Bill de Blasio, New York City’s public advocate, was elected Mayor of New York City. De Blasio’s victory had been all but assured since he prevailed in…
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For the first time, Marina Silva makes reference to the race factor in her campaign Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent Courtesy of Brasil 247, “Pela primeira vez, Marina usa fator racial na campanha” (2014-09-19) “Let’s elect the first black woman president of Brazil,” said the PSB candidate…
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Light-Skinned Latinos Tend To Vote More Republican. Be Careful How You Interpret That. Latino Voices The Huffington Post 2014-09-18 Roque Planas, Editor Lighter-skinned Latinos are more likely to vote Republican, according to polling data analyzed by the Washington Post. The data highlights rarely recognized racial divisions within the Latino community that have perplexed the U.S.…
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Challenger Upends Brazilian Race for Presidency The New York Times 2014-09-15 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief RIO DE JANEIRO — When Dilma Rousseff and Marina Silva were both cabinet ministers, they clashed on everything from building nuclear power plants to licensing huge dams in the Amazon. Ms. Rousseff came out on top, emerging as the…
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In Korea, Adoptees Fight To Change Culture That Sent Them Overseas Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-09-09 Steve Haruch In the Gwanak-gu neighborhood of Seoul, there is a box. Attached to the side of a building, the box resembles a book drop at a public library, only larger, and…
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“No Rainbow Families” and the Problem with Race-Based Reproduction Policies Impact Ethics: Making a Difference in Bioethics 2014-09-08 Catherine Clune-Taylor, Doctoral Candidate Department of Philosophy University of Alberta, Canada Catherine Clune-Taylor suggests that we should target institutional and interpersonal racism rather than restrict individual reproductive choice A July 2014 Calgary Herald article revealed that Calgary’s…
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Marina Silva: The political dynamo who has electrified the election season and wants to be Brazil’s first black woman president Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2014-09-05 Marina Silva: a pioneer in politics By Primeiros Negros, José Eustáquio Diniz Alves, and Luciana Lima The first black woman candidate…
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Will Brazil elect Marina Silva as the world’s first Green president? The Guardian/The Observer 2014-08-30 Jonathan Watts, Latin America Correspondent Born into a poor, mixed-race Amazon family, Marina Silva is on the verge of a stunning election win after taking over her party It started with the national anthem and ended with a rap. In…