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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All mixed up: Multiracial students at CVHS say they don’t fit in one box The Upstream: The Student-Run News Site of Carnegie Vanguard High School Houston, Texas 2022-02-02 Sofia Hegstrom, Contributing Writer Noah Mohamed, Staff Writer Senior Xen Villareal identifies as mixed-race indigenous and is one-quarter Black. Photo courtesy of Xen Villareal My eyebrows furrowed…
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What few outside his family and close friends knew at that time: Taffy Abel was Native American – the first Indigenous athlete to carry the flag at the Olympics. Within days he’d become the first Native American to win a medal in winter games history.
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Olivia Ward Bush-Banks and New Negro Indigeneity MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United StatesVolume 45, Issue 3, Fall 2020pages 104–128Published: 03 July 2020DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlaa033 DeLisa D. Hawkes, Assistant Professor of EnglishUniversity of Texas, El Paso Among New Negro Renaissance greats such as Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and Wallace Thurman, early…
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Surnames, by Counties and Cities, of Mixed Negroid Virginia Families Striving to Pass as “Indian” or White by Walter A. Plecker (ca. 1943) Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics Richmond, Virginia (Source: Encyclopedia Virginia) December 1943 To Local Registrars, Clerks, Legislators, and others responsible for, and interested in, the prevention of…
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The union of Native Americans and a black church institution
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A new U.S. stamp will honor an Upstate New York woman who was the first Black and Native American sculptor to earn international recognition.
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By invoking the “Indian grandmother” and royal African ancestor tropes, Hughes complicates those compartmentalized identities and US histories implied via the American blood idiom to denote associations with enslavement that bolster notions of intraracial difference and white supremacist ideology.
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Set on a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, “Love Medicine”—the first novel from master storyteller and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich—is an epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines.