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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Dr. Patton to speak in Germany Branding Iron: The UW Student Newspaper Online 2017-11-15 Courtney Kudera (Photo courtesy of Dr. Tracey Patton) A picture of Dr. Tracey Patton standing on the UW campus. Designing Modern Families: International Perspectives of Intercountry and Transracial Adoptions; this is the conference UW professor, Dr. Tracey Patton, has been asked…
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The declaration came emphatically, out of nowhere — dropped between sudsing his hair and rinsing out the shampoo with a plastic yellow duck full of water. “I’m not black,” my then 4-year-old son announced, while playing with his superhero figurines in the tub.
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For interracial Black and white families, honest discussions about racism need to be had in a white supremacist world.
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To be a black woman in 2017 is a lot of things. And none of them are easy.
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But what I do know is what it is like to be a mixed race kid trying to figure out where to belong in this world and trying to figure it out with no guidance.
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Ian Rose gets a bit weirded out when people coo over his Anglo-Vietnamese children. But can’t turn down free dinner.