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: Native Americans/First Nation
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Black Indians Heritage Feature – Hot Ticket Cox 11 Hampton Roads Local Television Channel 2014-02-20 This special feature in honor of Black History Month provides insight into the high percentage of local African Americans that also have Native American heritage.
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Duncan McDonald: Flathead Indian Reservation Leader and Cultural Broker, 1849-1937 University of Nebraska Press 2016-03-31 256 pages 28 illustrations, 6 maps, index Paperback ISBN: 978-1-934594-15-5 Robert Bigart, Librarian Emeritus Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana Joseph McDonald, President Emeritus (and grandnephew of Duncan McDonald) Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana Duncan McDonald (1849–1937) led a remarkable life…
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Ep.9 – Genetics and Identity Scientifica Radio: a CKUT radio science magazine CKUT 90.3 FM Montreal, Canada 2017-01-27 On today’s episode, Rackeb Tesfaye and Brïte Pauchet explore the link between genetics and identity. Can genetic DNA testing determine our identity? Are they overhyped? Amanda Morgan, a genetic counselling graduate student at McGill University, explains what genetic…
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Statement by Joseph Boyden CNW: A Cision Company 2017-01-11 Joseph Boyden TORONTO, Jan. 11, 2017 /CNW/ – A few weeks ago, I found out that my 85-year-old mom had been contacted by a journalist who prodded her with pointed and personal questions about her heritage. Specifically, he asked her to prove how Indigenous she is.…
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The Boyden affair just got murkier: Salutin The Toronto Star 2017-01-13 Rick Salutin Celebrated author agrees to select interviews, insists he never embellished or lied about his heritage, but also offered platitudes versus confronting precise criticisms I found Joseph Boyden’s interview Wednesday on CBC — in a word rarely called for — unctuous. He surfaced…
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Full interview: Joseph Boyden on his heritage CBC Radio 2017-01-11 Jesse Kinos-Goodin Author Joseph Boyden addresses the recent controversy surrounding his Indigenous ancestral claims. (Penguin) “A small part of me is Indigenous, but it’s a big part of who I am.” Is Joseph Boyden really Indigenous? It’s a question a lot of people have been…
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Acclaimed novelist Joseph Boyden faces controversy surrounding his heritage but there is a long history in North American of blurred lines.
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Descendants Of Native American Slaves In New Mexico Emerge From Obscurity All Things Considered National Public Radio 2016-12-29 John Burnett, Southwest Correspondent, National Desk Santo Tomas Catholic church in Abiquiu, N.M., is the site of an annual saint’s day celebration in late November that includes cultural elements of the genizaros, the descendants of Native American…