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: Autobiography
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Too Black for the adoption agencies but not Black enough for the political campaigners. On growing up an adoptee of mixed heritage in Britain.
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My name is Sally Jacobs and I am a reporter doing a project for WGBH radio in Boston on interracial marriage in connection with the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing the practice. I am looking for couples in New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont) who have a…
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‘What are you?’ Varsity Cambridge, United Kingdom 2017-02-03 Gabrielle McGuinness Being mixed race defies binaries and confuses people. HILLARY Gabrielle McGuinness talks about being mixed race ‘So, ummmm…what are you?’ ‘I’m sorry, what?’ I say. ‘Like where are you from.’ ‘Oh! I’m British’, I’ll reply enthusiastically, trying to end the conversation there. ‘No, I mean…
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Black and French: ‘Mariannes Noires’ film explores the intersections of identity AfroPunk 2017-02-16 T. McLendon The African diaspora reaches to every corner of the earth and in the Western world Black identity is often formed within the context of white supremacy, white nationalism, and white majorities. For Black people learning, growing and living in France,…
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I’m A Mixed-Race Woman But Everyone Thinks I’m White — Which Hurts My Pride But Gives Me Privilege Bustle 2017-02-07 Danielle Campoamor Source: Courtesy of Danielle Campoamor “We can’t help you here,” was all the receptionist would tell me. I was 20 years old, living in Plainview, Texas, and trying to see a doctor —…
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‘To be black doesn’t have to mean anything more than what I already am’ The Philadelphia Inquirer 2016-02-06 Sofiya Ballin, Staff Writer Sonia Galiber, Director of Operations at Urban Creators Michael Bryant For Black History Month, we’re exploring history and identity through the lens of joy. Black joy is the ability to love and celebrate…
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Reel Representation: Amma Asante’s films adeptly portray multiracial identity The Daily Bruin Los Angeles, California 2017-02-09 Olivia Mazzucato Diversity in film and television came into the spotlight in 2016 with #OscarsSoWhite. A USC study in 2016 found only about a quarter of speaking characters belonged to non-white racial/ethnic groups. In “Reel Representation,” columnist Olivia Mazzucato…
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I am much more than ‘a disgrace to black people’ The Charlotte Observer Charlotte, North Carolina 2017-02-09 Nicolas Coleman, Special to the Observer Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Duke freshman Nicolas Coleman understands why others have questioned his blackness In seventh grade I was labeled “a disgrace to black people.” I was made of aware…