Mixed Race Studies

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  • When You Grow Up Mixed Race

    When You Grow Up Mixed Race Thought Catalog 2015-12-11 Evicka Chang Growing up mixed-race is confusing. It wasn’t until my third year of University when the theory of hybridity was introduced in a Lit Theory class that I even began to consider the complexities of my own existence. It was also then that I started…

  • Multiracial in America: Who gets to be “white”?

    Jeremy Gordon on growing up multiracial, assimilation and “whiteness” in post-Obama America.

  • Vienna to London: Black to Mixed-Race

    Vienna to London: Black to Mixed-Race Afropean: Adventures in Afro Europe 2015-03-19 Annina Chirade I was born in Vienna, a place which has historically been a frontier between Eastern and Western Europe. I was primarily brought up in London, a city whose population reflects the reaches of the British Empire. It is also the place…

  • Free at Last?

    Free at Last? Commentary 1992-10-01 Glenn C. Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences; Professor of Economics Brown University A formative experience of my growing-up on the South Side of Chicago in the 1960’s occurred during one of those heated, earnest political rallies so typical of the period. I was about eighteen at…

  • White Dads

    White Dads Mixed Roots Stories 2015-12-16 Sarah Gladstone Being brown and having a white dad means something, whether people want to acknowledge it or not. Right now, I’m working on an anthology project—“WHITE DADS: Stories and experiences told by people of color, fathered by white men.” I’ve been loving the ways people are taking this…

  • History Matters: Nanticoke tribe seeks to sustain its identity

    History Matters: Nanticoke tribe seeks to sustain its identity Delaware Public Media: Delaware’s source for NPR News WDDE 91.1, Dover WMPH 91.7, Wilmington 2015-06-26 Anne Hoffman, Youth Producer and General Assignment Reporter History Matters examines the Nanticoke Tribe of Delaware’s fight to maintain its identity. They’re called Delaware’s Forgotten Folks. In the second part of…

  • Play means to help people of mixed race find sense of belonging

    Play means to help people of mixed race find sense of belonging MPR News Minnesota Public Radio 2015-12-15 Marianne Combs, Arts and Culture Reporter “Purple Cloud,” written by Jessica Huang and directed by Randy Reyes, looks at three generations of hapa, or mixed race, Chinese immigrants as they search to find a place where they…

  • The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir

    No one knew Staceyann’s mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother’s house in Lottery, Jamaica, on Christmas Day. Staceyann’s mother did not want her, and her father was not present. No one, except her grandmother, thought Staceyann would survive.

  • Let’s Talk Internalised Racism

    Let’s Talk Internalised Racism Zusterschap: A blog for women who want to challenge social norms. November 2015 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom All women have to check themselves for internalized misogyny because we live in a patriarchal society. Similarly, all people of colour have to check themselves for internalised racism due to living in…

  • Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave

    Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave Lushena Books 2014-02-20 (Originally published in 1849) 104 pages 0.2 x 4.9 x 7.9 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 1631820060 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1631820069 Henry Bibb (1815-1854)   Read the entire narrative, courtesy of Documenting the American South (DocSouth) here.