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: Passing
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They considered themselves white, but DNA tests told a more complex story The Washington Post 2018-02-06 Tara Bahrampour As more Americans take advantage of genetic testing to pinpoint the makeup of their DNA, the technology is coming head to head with the country’s deep-rooted obsession with race and racial myths. This is perhaps no more…
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Passing and Being Passed Over in the United States Los Angeles Review of Books 2017-12-15 Kavita Das We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America By Brando Skyhorse, Lisa Page Published 10.10.2017 Beacon Press 216 Pages IN THE YEARS preceding the 2016 presidential election, the “birther” movement that had dogged Barack Obama…
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A lot has changed, and largely because of the work of Annette Gordon-Reed, who took seriously Hemings family stories and, bolstered by a DNA study, convinced nearly all scholars, including Kerrison, that Brodie was correct. “Jefferson’s Daughters,” Kerrison’s beautifully written book, takes the relationship’s existence as a given.
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What the disappearance of Thomas Jefferson’s daughter can tell us about racism in America.
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The acclaimed writer’s 14th novel is a nuanced story of racial identity set in postwar Australia
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On the surface, race appears as a simple category to quantify—the color of one’s skin, the box one circles on the census, even the percentage that appears on an at-home DNA testing kit. But the reality of one’s racial identity is hardly objective.
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But even as we have blurred racial lines in ways scarcely imaginable when “The Souls of Black Folk” appeared in 1903, we still have our clear-cut demarcations. And in many ways, lines of color, alongside the complexities of what it means to pass as one thing or another, may be what best defines Danzy Senna’s…
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Senator Elizabeth Warren says now, as she has from the first days of her public life, that she based her assertions about her heritage on her reasonable trust in what she was told about her ancestry as a child.
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Fredi Washington negotiated bigotry and made her way in the movies
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This article explores how we can use African American activist media to theorize the role of pedagogy in the public sphere. Focusing on how racial passing stories expose the limiting (and often tropic) binaries through which racial identity is deciphered, this analysis further highlights the extent to which these binary constructions of identity are learned…