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: History
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Patrick Healy never directly addressed questions of what his racial identity might have been in the written record he left behind. However, he wrote on a few occasions about “blacks” or “negroes” in a tone that seems to indicate that he saw them as a group he did not belong to.
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Royally Racist: The Fear Behind the One-Drop Rule to Preserve Whiteness Beacon Broadside: A Project of Beacon Press 2021-03-11 Yaba Blay Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are so done with the way the royal family has treated them. We wish the couple and their children all the happiness in the world. Photo…
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Taken from their mothers in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, decades on a group of mixed-race elderly people are fighting the Belgian state for recognition and reparations.
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Cherokee Nation Strikes Down Language That Limits Citizenship Rights ‘By Blood’ National Public Radio 2021-02-25 Mary Louise Kelly, Host All Things Considered Rena Logan, a member of a Cherokee Freedmen family, shows her identification card as a member of the Cherokee tribe at her home in Muskogee, Okla., in this photo from October 2011. She…
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A century of European immigration brought with it a comprehensive effort to erase the country’s multiracial past. Only recently has that been reversed.