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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My Mixed Identity: Growing Up As A Mixed American Odyssey 2016-03-29 Ryan McDaniel It is 2016 and interracial marriage is on the rise. Consequently, the number of mixed Americans is on the rise. Naturally, there is a lot of controversy regarding the matter that comes in different forms. People oppose it for the false reasoning…
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Navigating Racial Liminality The Tufts Observer Medford, Massachusetts Issue 4 Spring 2016 2016-03-28 Conrad Young Kindergarten was the first time my racial identity was called into question. My mom came into my class to do a show-and-tell about my family’s time in the Republic of Macedonia, where I lived from ages one to four while…
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Race isn’t just black or white The Beacon: The Student Voice of the University of Portland Since 1935 Portland, Oregon 2016-04-13 Rebekah Markillie, Design Editor I couldn’t have been more than seven or eight years old, on the way to the park with my dad, when a neighborhood kid asked me if I was adopted.…
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Passionate about promoting diversity within the profession she is patron for Black British Academics and a Board member for various diversity organisations such as the Black Cultural Archives and the City Women Network.
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The SRB Interview: Jackie Kay Scottish Review of Books Volume 11, Issue 3 (2016) Opening one of Jackie Kay’s books is like walking into a busy metropolitan bar that has accommodated within its walls the deep past, character and charm of a country pub. You know you will encounter stories comic and sad, that you…
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This is very hard for me to write because I don’t know how to begin.
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“We Called That Touch” Boston Review 2016-03-28 Ed Pavlić, Professor of English and Creative Writing University of Georgia Race and the Intimate Tangle of American Experience It might seem to you that I am white. Then again, depending upon how and where we meet—and upon things in your life I know nothing about—it might seem…
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I’m Irish but I’m not white. Why is that still a problem as we celebrate the Easter Rising? The Guardian 2016-03-29 Emma Dabiri With an Irish mother and Nigerian father, I grew up singing Irish rebel songs. But the racism I experienced was not part of the dreams of 1916’s revolutionaries I grew up singing…
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“I am Black,” Jane Lazarre’s son tells her. “I have a Jewish mother, but I am not ‘biracial.’ That term is meaningless to me.”