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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Race In The Northwest: Hood River Man Learns His Family’s Surprising Truth Oregon Public Broadcasting 2016-12-07 Anna Griffin, News Director Hood River writer and cidermaker John Metta. Anna Griffin/OPB Hood River, Oregon—John Metta grew up thinking of himself as mixed race: His mother was white. His father’s side of the family proudly proclaimed themselves a blend of…
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Patrick Wolfe: Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race New Books Network 2016-11-07 Lynette Russell, Professor Monash University, Australia Aziz Rana, Professor of Law Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Widely known for his pioneering work in the field of settler colonial studies, Patrick Wolfe advanced the theory that settler colonialism was, “a structure, not an event.”…
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Carina E. Ray: Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana [Interview] New Books Network 2016-10-07 Dawne Curry, Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies University of Nebraska, Lincoln In Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana (Ohio University Press, 2015), Carina…
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You took a DNA test and it says you are Native American. So what? PRI’s The World Public Radio International 2016-11-24 Andrea Crossan, Senior Producer Boston, Massachusetts Have you been tempted to try one of those genetic testing kits, like the ones sold by Ancestry.com or 23andme.com? Maybe you’ve seen a commercial featuring Kim Trujillo.…
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Terry and Judy – A Mixed Race Journey The listening project: It’s surprising what you hear when you listen BBC Radio 4 2016-11-23, 10:55Z Fi Glover, Presenter Marya Burgess, Producer Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a mixed race couple who met at a time when their relationship was a lot more unusual than it…
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Growing up Indigenous when you don’t look it Unreserved CBC Radio 2016-11-06 Rosanna Deerchild, Host From r: Trevor Jang, Julie Daum, and Daniel Bear. (Supplied) Has anyone ever asked you where you come from? Or what your ethnic background is? Ethnicity and how the world perceives you don’t always go together. Which presents a challenge…
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Britain’s Black Past BBC Radio 4 2016-10-03 The Invisible Presence Professor Gretchen Gerzina explores a largely unknown past – the lives of black people who settled in Britain in the 18th and early 19th centuries. She reveals a startling paradox – although Britain was at the heart of a thriving slave trade, it was still…
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How do multiracial Asian people fit into discussions around race? The Record KUOW.org 94.9 FM | Seattle News & Information 2016-09-29 Caroline Chamberlain, Acquisitions Producer Bill Radke, Host Bill Radke sits down with Sharon H. Chang, author of “Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World.” She explains why it’s important to study the…