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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“It’s my black girl who looks like a white girl with a tan and a bad hair day.”
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“Us versus Them” – A Thought on the Complexities of Multiracial Passing Multiracial Media: Voice of the Multiracial Community 2016-12-08 Joanna L. Thompson, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice University of Illinois, Chicago Is this an example of “Multiracial Passing?” Photo credit: YouTube Recently, a post on TheRoot.com discussed the challenges Sofia Richie,…
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For Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews, Whiteness Was a Fragile Identity Long Before Trump Forward 2016-12-06 Sigal Samuel, Opinion Editor Nikki Casey I have lived for 26 years under the illusion that I am unconditionally white…. Recently I have started looking at my face and going, ‘Oh man, do I look too Jewish?’” Sydney Brownstone, the…
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Would-Be Bridegroom Takes Oath He Is Negro The San Francisco Call Volume 104, Number 70 (1908-08-09) Page 31, Column 4 (Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection) Cannot Get License to Wed Mulatto Until He Proves His Race ST. LOUIS, Aug. 8.— “You can’t get a marriage license here,” said Leon G. Smith of East St. Louis…
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Secrets and Lies Ms. Magazine blog Ms. Magazine 2016-05-17 Gail Lukasik The following is an excerpt from White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Identity. In 1995 when I discovered my mother’s black heritage, she made me promise never to tell her secret until she died. I kept her secret for 17…
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Review: “Krazy” by Michael Tisserand Know Louisiana: The Digital Encyclopedia of Louisiana and Home of Louisiana Cultural Vistas 2016-12-02 (Winter 2016) Lydia Nichols There is nothing more American than passing, the act of projecting a racial identity other than that assigned. At no other time and place in American history have necessity and opportunity so…
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Edit desk: Passing is a choice The Brown and White: All The Lehigh news first since 1894 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 2016-11-29 Gaby Morera, Managing Editor Once I was complaining about the challenges of being Hispanic in America to a friend of mine. I can’t even remember what I was saying, but I remember the person’s response…
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Krazy racial rules: New biography of cartoonist George Herriman The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 2016-11-25 Doug MacCash, Arts and Entertainment Writer New Orleans-born Krazy Kat cartoonist George Herriman (Photo by Will Connell, courtesy Michael Tisserand) “Krazy: A Life in Black and White,” the biography of Crescent City-born newspaper cartoonist extraordinaire George Herriman (1880-1944) is an…
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The first time I saw Michael Tisserand, he was walking up my doorstep, holding what appeared to be a red brick by his head, almost — but not quite– in a throwing pose. Turns out the red brick was the recently released Library of American Comics collection of “Krazy Kat” dailies for which he wrote…