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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The Five Stages of Being Biracial (If You’re Me) The Toast 2013-10-21 Jaya Saxena 1. Denial It wasn’t that the idea of being biracial frustrated me, it was just that I didn’t think I was it. Yes, I finally learned to write “Jaya Saxena,” but to a blank-slate of a five-year-old that combination of letters…
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Mixed messages The Queen’s Journal Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada Volume 141, Issue 16, 2013-10-22 Olivia Bowden, Assistant News Editor Many mixed race people, myself included, have trouble defining our ethnic identity. As a child, I’d put on my mother’s makeup and be confused as to why her dark brown foundation didn’t blend with…
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The Fluidity Neither/Both: my mixed-race experience 2013-10-19 Lola Osunkoya I went to the skating rink on a night I don’t usually go, and found myself to be the only female of color there. It was unusual to me because on my regularly night, it’s a predominantly Black crowd. In this stage of my identity development,…
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Coming Out as Biracial Human Parts 2013-10-21 Stephanie Georgopulos A few months ago, I not-so-subtly asserted myself as biracial while having dinner with a new coworker. “I’m a Capricorn,” she’d said. “Yeah…my mom’s black,” I responded (not verbatim, but the exchange was similar). Whoa. What? Immediately after I injected that part of my identity into…
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One Drop of Love: Finding the Love in the One-drop Rule through Documentary Storytelling and Performance California State University, Los Angeles May 2013 84 pages Fanshen DiGiovanni A Project Report Presented to The Faculties of the Departments of Television, Film & Media Studies, and Music, Theatre & Dance In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for…
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The Buddha of Suburbia Penguin Press 1990 288 pages 5.07 x 7.83in Paperback ISBN: 9780140131680 Hanif Kureishi Karim Amir lives with his English mother and Indian father in the routine comfort of suburban London, enduring his teenage years with good humor, always on the lookout for adventure—and sexual possibilities. Life gets more interesting, however, when…
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A Lot Like You DePaul University Center for Intercultural Programs LPC-Cortelyou Commons 2324 N Fremont St. 2013-10-15, 18:00-19:00 CDT (Local Time) Join documentary filmmaker Eliaichi Kimaro for a screening and discussion of scenes from A Lot Like Me, her own original autobiographical journey of self-discovery. Her film follows her experience as a mixed-race, first-generation American…
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The Era of Black Indian Transcendance Refixico 2013-09-29 Phil Wilkes Fixico, Seminole Maroon Descendant, California Seminole Mico (Nation of One) and Heniha for the Wildcat/John Horse Band of the Seminoles of Texas and Old Mexico I was a 52 yr. old African-American, when I discovered that I was really an African-Native American. This epiphany took…