Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Othello’s Daughter The New Yorker 2013-07-29 Alex Ross, Music Critic Aldridge, circa 1865, and his daughter Luranah, a singer, in an undated image. Credit Photographs by Billy Rose Theatre Division / The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; Mccormick Library of Special Collections / Northwestern University Library The rich legacy of Ira Aldridge,…
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Amanda Aldridge, Teacher and Composer: A Life in Music Journal of Singing January 2010 ISSN: 10867732 Joyce Andrews, Adjunct Instructor of Music Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin Aldridge was a remarkable person who devoted her lifetime to music, enriching the musical culture of Great Britain through her multi-talents as composer (published under the nom de plume…
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Cedric Dover, the Anglo-Indian Who Sought Worldwide Solidarity With Racial Minorities The Wire 2015-08-10 Elisabeth Engel, Research Fellow German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Slate, Nico, The Prism of Race: W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) The scholarship that takes up W.E.B. Du…
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Half white, half Asian Dubliner Dean Van Nguyen speaks to other mixed-race Irish people in their twenties and thirties about growing up in a primarily white culture, being subjected to racist taunts, and coming to terms with their own sense of self.
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Notable Black and Mixed Race men in Renaissance Europe Bino & Fino: Embracing My Child’s Black African Identity 2015-07-23 Maria Tumolo We are thrilled to bring you our very first guest post from children’s author Maria Tumolo. She is also writes a blog called Tiger Tales which explores parenting as an expat mixed heritage family.…
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How to Unlearn History | Ella Achola | TEDxCoventGardenWomen TEDx Talks 2015-07-21 Ella Achola, Founder Ain’t I A Woman Collective From awkward school encounters to groan-inducingly offensive questions, Ella finds herself at the intersections of identity, and shares her big idea for bringing ourselves into the stories we tell. Ella Achola is a writer and…
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Having come through some difficult times as a teenager Kira now happily identifies with both of her cultural backgrounds. Annina says that when you are ‘mixed-race’ people make assumptions about your identity and consider it to be “up for debate”, but she is clear that “whiteness is not something I’m a part of.”
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“In Lines of Descent,” Kwame Anthony Appiah traces the twin lineages of Du Bois’ American experience and German apprenticeship, showing how they shaped the great African-American scholar’s ideas of race and social identity.