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: Judaism
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New Rabbi at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue ‘a Pioneer’ The Wall Street Journal 2014-01-17 Sophia Hollander Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl Is Daughter of a Korean Buddhist Immigrant and an American Jew Growing up as the daughter of a Korean Buddhist immigrant and an American Jew in Tacoma, Wash., Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl said some family members…
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Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family Beacon Press 2013-10-22 264 pages 5.5″ X 8.5″ inches Cloth ISBN: 978-080701319-9 Susan Katz Miller A book on the growing number of interfaith families raising children in two religions Susan Katz Miller grew up with a Jewish father and Christian mother, and was raised Jewish. Now…
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INDIGO: An Exhibit of Textiles Gandhi Memorial Center 4748 Western Avenue Bethesda, Maryland, 20816 Washington, D.C. Phone: 301-320-6871 Opening Reception: Saturday, 2013-11-16, 14:00-16:00 EST (Local Time) Inaugural Remarks at 14:30 EST INDIGO, an exhibition of textiles by Laura Kina and Shelly Jyoti will be inaugurated at the Gandhi Memorial Center in cooperation with the Embassy…
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My Basmati Bat Mitzvah Amulet Books 2013-10-01 256 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 1-4197-0806-6 Paula J. Freedman During the fall leading up to her bat mitzvah, Tara (Hindi for “star”) Feinstein has a lot more than her Torah portion on her mind. Between Hebrew school and study sessions with the rabbi, there…
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The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945 Harvard University Press February 2011 272 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 20 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674057012 George Bornstein, C. A. Patrides Professor of Literature, Emeritus University of Michigan, Ann Arbor A major reevaluation of relationships among Blacks, Jews, and Irish in the years…
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Black And Jewish And Read All Over The Jewish Week 2013-07-16 Julie Wiener She may currently live on the Upper East Side, but Simone Weichselbaum, 31, remains a Brooklyn girl. Raised in Williamsburg and Crown Heights by her Ashkenazi Jewish dad (who freelances for The Jewish Week) and Jamaican mom, Weichselbaum, a Park East Day…
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I’m a kosher burrito, says new mixed-race LA mayor The Jewish Chronicle Online London, England 2013-05-30 Tom Tugend Eric Garcetti, the first Jewish mayor elected by Los Angeles voters, jokingly refers to himself as a “kosher burrito”, the latter word referring to a popular Mexican dish. The son of a Jewish mother and a father…
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New Demographic Perspectives on Studying Intermarriage in the United States Contemporary Jewry Published Online: May 2013 pages 1-17 DOI: 10.1007/s12397-013-9103-9 Bruce A. Phillips, Professor of Jewish Communal Service Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles The study of Jewish intermarriage has largely ignored the measurement conventions prevalent in the field of demography such as…