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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3 Ways to Boost Your Self Esteem About Multiracial Hair Just Analise: Exploring and Embracing Authenticity in Life, Culture + Business 2016-01-31 Analise Kandasammy My multiracial hair. Sometimes it’s admired. Sometimes it’s a source of contention. Loved or hated, my hair undeniably me… Read the entire article here.
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“What? Black people in the Dominican Republic?” Yes amig@*, there are Black Dominican people whose ancestors descend from the African motherland. However, the question is not so much, “Are there Black people in the Dominican Republic?” as it is “Are Dominican people Black?”
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Voices from Mixed Asian America MJ Engel Columbia University, New York, New York 2016-01-27 Hearing the unfiltered voices of the mixed Asian experience remains a novelty. “Voices from Mixed Asian America” is a compilation of interviews conducted with eight mixed race individuals. This series amplifies and connects the personal experiences of mixed Asian voices and…
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Almost any given object can be split in half with each half making up 50% of whole. I can only think of one exception. When someone asks if I am half black or half white, I don’t want to give the comfortable response they are looking for. Any answer would imply that my Whiteness and…
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How Much Black Does It Take to be Considered a Black Woman? My Black Matters 2015-12-27 Zoe Hobson Growing up, I heard “what are you” more times then I can keep track of. Out of innocence my natural response started as “American of course”, and quickly turned into a forced smile and a reluctant “I’m…
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Mixed: The many faces of the multiracial experience. The Stream Al Jazeera English 2016-01-20 Femi Oke, Host “What are you?” is an often used opening question that doesn’t always have a short and simple answer. For people with more than one racial background, identity is a lot more than one word; it’s a sentence, a…
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This piece is a very personal piece for me and does not intend to put over any specific political line; it does not intend to educate, but I hope it will make people think.
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How I Learned about the One-Drop Rule: Mark Fanshen Cox 2016-01-20 One Drop of Love is a multimedia one-woman show exploring the intersections of race, class, gender, justice and LOVE. For more information, click here.
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Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape Counterpoint Press 2015-11-10 240 pages 5.5 x 8.25 Hardcover ISBN: 9781619025738 Lauret Savoy, Professor of Environmental Studies and Geology Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts An environmental historian traces her mixed ancestry by reading both the land and the blistering record of race in America Sand and…
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The Audacity to be Black The Chicago Maroon: The independent student newspaper of The University of Chicago since 1892. 2016-01-18 Vincente Perez The word African American masks the political strife and oppression that comes with the word Black. “Black is hurt. Black is pain. Black is strong. Black is Love Worked hard and long Black…