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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What Being Mixed Race in a Small Town Does to Your Sense of Beauty: Otherwise Known as Growing Up “Exotic” Bustle 2015-01-06 Justin Robert Thomas Smith Let me just start by saying this: Up until this point (and hopefully for at least a little while longer), I’ve led a relatively charmed life. I grew up…
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When Being Black Is a Family Secret the sisterhood: where jewish women converse The Jewish Daily Forward 2015-01-02 Susan Reimer-Torn When Lacey Schwartz was accepted at Georgetown University, it was a dream come true. It also blew the lid off a tightly-guarded secret. Along with her admission, the high school senior from Woodstock, New York…
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Where does race fit in the construction of modern identity?
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Jewish girl overcomes a ‘Little White Lie’ about race The Kansas City Star Kansas City, Missouri 2015-01-05 Jeneé Osterheldt When I look at one of her old baby pictures, I think of my own childhood snapshots. A mixed little girl sits happily in her white mama’s lap. It’s a sweet picture of Lacey Schwartz and…
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I Claim Black Because My Light Skin Doesn’t Protect Me from Misogynoir For Harriet 2015-01-03 Kesiena Boom Brighton, England I am a mixed race woman. One of my parents is Black and the other is white. I identify as both mixed race and as Black. I do so because of the legacy of the one…
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Losing My Cool: Love, Literature, and a Black Man’s Escape from the Crowd Penguin Books April 2010 240 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780143119623 ePub ISBN: 9781101404348 Thomas Chatterton Williams Growing up, Thomas Chatterton Williams knew he loved three things in life: his parents, literature, and the intoxicating hip-hop culture that surrounded him. For years, he managed…
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Mixed: Race cannot be invisible The Daily of the University of Washington 2012-10-27 Hayat Norimine For most of my life, I was opposed to the concept of “diversity.” Half-Japanese, half-Syrian, I was the definition of racially diverse, but I also loathed being labeled. I thought diversity was difficult to define. I thought race alone was…
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Why I Passed For White The Archipelago: Stories about community, identity, and the ongoing quest to belong. Medium 2014-12-19 Shawna Ayoub Ainslie I erased my own heritage to feel safe. I hope to teach my children not to do the same. When I was 16, I started letting people believe that I was white. In…
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Lacey Schwartz came to terms with her true racial identity in ‘Little White Lie’ The New York Daily News 2014-11-30 Justin Rocket Silverman, Senior Features Writer Documentary film chronicles how she grew up believing she was a white Jewish girl and then learned her biological father was black Lacey Schwartz didn’t know she was black…