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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Exploring Classification of Black-White Biracial Students in Oregon Schools University of Oregon December 2012 145 pages Deana M. James Presented to the Department of Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership and the Graduate School of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Multiracial children constitute one…
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Defined by mixed race The Globe & Mail 2017-01-23 Mckenzie Small Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Differences make you stand out, Mckenzie Small writes, and it’s something to be proud of She just keeps staring at me – as if I’m from another dimension – and then she asks the all-too-familiar question: “So what are you, exactly?” I…
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A Black Female Astrophysicist Explains Why Hidden Figures Isn’t Just About History Gizmodo 2017-01-17 Rae Paoletta Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson in Hidden Figures. Image: 20th Century Fox/YouTube First, it beat Star Wars: Rogue One. Now, for the second weekend since its wide-release debut, Hidden Figures—the true story of three black female mathematicians at NASA—is number…
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98-Year-Old NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson: ‘If You Like What You’re Doing, You Will Do Well’ People 2016-11-04 Caitlin Keating Katherine Johnson thinks all of her accomplishments over the 98 years she’s been alive are “ordinary.” But to the rest of the world, they’re anything but. Johnson, a physicist, space scientist and mathematician graduated from high school…
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Statement by Joseph Boyden CNW: A Cision Company 2017-01-11 Joseph Boyden TORONTO, Jan. 11, 2017 /CNW/ – A few weeks ago, I found out that my 85-year-old mom had been contacted by a journalist who prodded her with pointed and personal questions about her heritage. Specifically, he asked her to prove how Indigenous she is.…
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Shaken Out of Time: Black Bodies and Movement in Zadie Smith’s Swing Time Virginia Quarterly Review Volume 93, Number 1, Winter 2017 pages 196-199 Kaitlyn Greenidge Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont Swing Time By Zadie Smith, Penguin, 2016, 464p. HB, $27. Midway through Zadie Smith’s new novel, Swing Time, the unnamed narrator watches two girls walk…
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All of which makes Michael Tisserand’s “Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White” a fascinating and frustrating biography. Though Herriman’s “Krazy Kat” comic strip was admired in his lifetime, it wasn’t until years after his death in 1944 that his vast influence received widespread critical respect.