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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In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man.
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An Open Letter to the White Fathers of Black Daughters bluestockings magazine 2015-02-23 Kelsey Henry I have been drafting this letter since I was ten. I am twenty and tonight is the first night I will write these words outside of me. I don’t know what they will look like here. Honestly, I am scared…
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Is it still Interracial dating when you’re mixed? Fusion 2015-02-19 Simone Jacobson Washington, D.C. No matter where I live or whom I date, I will always be out of context. Here’s how it all began: My mother and my maternal grandparents were born in Burma. My grandpa’s father was Chinese and my grandma’s father was…
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Mixed Feelings The Center for Asian American Media 1998 45 minutes, VHS Mikko Jokela, Director/Poducer Through interviews with five UC Berkeley students and teachers of mixed ethnic heritage, filmmaker Mikko Jokela illuminates the experience of what it is like to grow up part Asian in American society. His peers offer personal anecdotes detailing how their…
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My Biracial Life: A Memoir Philadelphia [Magazine] 2015-02-08 Originally published as “My Wild, Chaotic, Complex, Crazy, Ambiguous (Biracial) Hair” in the February 2015 issue of Philadelphia magazine. Malcolm Burnley What 25 years with wild, chaotic, complex, crazy, ambiguous hair has taught me. It’s 1:30 a.m. on a Saturday night at the barren 24-hour Melrose Diner…
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INTERVIEW: Jason Fung, Author of ‘Beyond Eurasian and Hapa’ Hapa Mama: Asian Fusion Family and Food 2015-02-02 Grace Hwang Lynch I recently had a chance to interview Jason Fung, author of the upcoming book Beyond Eurasian and Hapa. Fung is a 34-year-old mixed-race (Chinese and Caucasian) person who went to high school and college in…
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Q&A with Carlos E. Cortés, author of “Rose Hill” Heyday 2012-03-21 A poignant memoirist, Carlos E. Cortés brings his past to life in Rose Hill: An Intermarriage before its Time, portraying multiracial relationships and the impact they had on the development of his identity. Sometimes hilarious and at times tragic, this powerful narrative takes the…
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Adopting The Asian in ‘Caucasian’: Korean Adoptees and White Privilege Hyphen: Asian America Unabridged 2015-01-20 Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut My father remembers that when I first arrived, he’d wake up to me calling out “Abojee! Abojee!” in the middle of the night, the Korean word for father. As a little girl, those nights in my new…