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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Racial Microaggressions Among Asian American and Latino/a Students at a Historically Black University Journal of College Student Development Volume 56, Number 7, October 2015 pages 705-722 DOI: 10.1353/csd.2015.0076 Robert T. Palmer, Associate Professor Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Howard University, Washington, D.C. Dina C. Maramba, Assistant Professor of Student Affairs Administration Binghampton University,…
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Clarion University forced to cancel play over actors’ race Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2015-11-12 Bill Schackner, Higher Education Writer Student actors and the stage crew at Clarion University arrived Tuesday evening for one of the final rehearsals before next week’s campus opening of “Jesus in India” only to learn the off-Broadway production they had spent…
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I am a 35-year old mixed race woman (Black Jamaican, Nigerian and White British), born and living in Leeds, Yorkshire the UK and I recently completed a counselling diploma. As part of the work I had to do to achieve my diploma I had to do a great deal of work around examining my racial…
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Halloween Costume Emails Stokes Debate At Yale All Things Considered National Public Radio 2015-11-09 Audie Cornish, Host Yale University is in turmoil after a series of emails about culturally insensitive Halloween costumes. Some students there are protesting what they say is a hostile environment for students of color. Sebi Median-Tayac [Aaron Z. Lewis], one of…
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What’s Really Going On at Yale Medium 2015-11-08 Aaron Z. Lewis, Senior Yale University Dean Jonathan Holloway; Photo credit: Yale Daily News By now, you’ve probably seen the video of a Yale student yelling at a professor, the Facebook post about a “white girls only” party, or the email about offensive Halloween costumes. Unfortunately, the…
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At a place like Columbia, where how you identify can define the spaces you occupy and the people you interact with, being of mixed race presents an extra challenge. The balancing act between multiple cultures, communities, and colors can leave one wondering where they belong.
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Panel talks multiracial identity in academics The Michigan Daily 2015-10-27 Alexa St John, Daily Staff Reporter According to a 2015 Pew Research Center report, 6.9 percent of all Americans 18 and older identify as multiracial. According to the University’s Office of the Registrar, last year, just over 3 percent of students identified as two or…
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Alumna and author Danzy Senna visits high school The Sagamore: Brookline High School’s student newspaper Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts 2015-09-29 Sam Klein, Valentina Rojas-Posada and Sofia Tong Danzy Senna, alumna and author of junior and senior summer reading book Caucasia, came to the high school today for a day of discussions with students and…
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Photo Gallery Highlights Multiracial Student Experiences The Havard Crimson 2015-10-26 Aafreen Azmi, Contributing Writer Brandon J. Dixon, Contributing Writer Students study the portraits on display at “OTHER: A Multiracial Student Photo Gallery” at the exhibition’s opening on Sunday afternoon. Eliza R. Pugh Students expressed their desire to define their racial identities on their own terms…