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: Campus Life
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Race Unknown Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2011-02-21 Katti Gray Bryan Lee, a senior at the University of California, Irvine, has noticed that some of his classmates adamantly declare their multiracial heritage while others choose not to identify themselves as being any particular ethnicity. The half-Korean, half-White biomedical engineering major is co-president of the university’s…
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Oregon’s Portland Community College to mark ‘Whiteness History Month’ NBC News 2016-01-21 Shamar Walters and Cassandra Vinograd First comes Black History Month and then … Whiteness History Month? A community college in Oregon has set aside April to look at “whiteness” — but not to celebrate what it’s described as a social construct which leads…
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Naomi Zack is one of just six people scheduled to receive a University of Oregon award on Wednesday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. But the philosophy professor expressed mixed feelings about what the award means at a university where so few of her colleagues are minorities.
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Both native and foreign: How being of mixed race affects Japanese students The Cavalier Daily Charlottesville, Virginia 2014-07-01 Emily Gorham I have now entered week five of my three month stay in Japan as an intern for the Ibaraki Christian University’s English department. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about what I’ve termed the…
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Brazil’s Federal Universities Approach Racial Quota Implementation Deadline Truthout 2015-12-30 Marlenee Blas Pedral, Fulbright Fellow Comissão Fulbright Brasil In 2016, Brazil’s prestigious federal universities will be required to confirm that fifty percent of their incoming students come from public schools. Furthermore, slots for self-identifying Black, mixed-race and Indigenous students must correspond to the proportion of…
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This poem perfectly captures feelings from a campus protest Blavity 2015-12-26 Blavity Team What’s it like to be conscious of being love[d] and being hated at the same time? This poet [Ariana Brown] eloquently explains her experience at a campus protest.
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At UNLV, a north-south divide over rebel mascot — but it’s not what you think The Los Angeles Times 2015-12-02 Nigel Duara, Contact Reporter The University of Nevada Las Vegas mascot, Hey Reb! (exclamation mark included), warms up the crowd before a basketball game. (Isaac Brekken / Associated Press) He is all bushy mustache and…
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UNLV President Len Jessup says keep Rebel nickname; research concludes no roots in Confederacy U.S. News & World Report 2015-11-30 Michelle Rindels, Politics Reporter The Associated Press FILE – In this Feb. 1, 2014, file photo, UNLV mascot Hey Reb warms up the crowd before an NCAA college basketball game in Las Vegas. UNLV President…
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Putting racism, white supremacy, and white privilege in context Chimes: The official student newspaper of Calvin College Grand Rapids, Michigan 2015-12-11 Joseph Kuilema, Professor of Social Work A group of students went to write positive messages on snow on cars following the racist comments that were written. Photo Credit Katelyn Bosch On Sunday, Nov. 22,…