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: Family/Parenting
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I have nothing to prove in way of my identity, but I take seriously the guarding of the rich legacies passed down to me through the blood in my veins, the traditions I carry out, and the features of my face.
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Alicia Cox Thomson was raised to embrace both her Bajan and Polish cultures, and feels it’s crucial that her own kids embrace their blackness.
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Out of the approximately 95,000 U.S. Occupation babies born in Germany shortly after WWII, there were approximately 5,000 of us, Post WWII Afro-German children or so-called Negro mulatto babies, better known in the United States as Germany’s “Brown Babies.” In 1952, the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) deemed that we formed a special group,…
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In an age of ubiquitous direct-to-consumer genetic testing, family secrets are almost impossible to keep.
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“John, I am not willing to have a conversation with you about racism when I believe you still think we enter this conversation as equals”
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His life was hell because he looked different than the other boys that played in the streets of Saigon.
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It was when her eldest daughter began asking questions about herself, namely about the color of her skin. They were questions that took her by surprise because Simone was only 3 years old.
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Often, I find that the Japanese mother is happy to know that their “American” child is interested in Japanese-ness. I do know a few mothers who also became angry with their children for being interested in finding their Japanese roots.