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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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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We are not “belligerent,” “dark” or “bitter” Media Diversified 2016-11-29 Tele Ogunyemi, Co-founder Diaspora Philes Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s recent article ‘Blend it like Britain’ is a masterpiece in how to simultaneously erase and fetishize people of colour. Published on 6th November 2016 in the Sunday Times Magazine to promote Amma Asante’s new film ‘A United Kingdom’, the…
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Patrick Wolfe: Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race New Books Network 2016-11-07 Lynette Russell, Professor Monash University, Australia Aziz Rana, Professor of Law Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Widely known for his pioneering work in the field of settler colonial studies, Patrick Wolfe advanced the theory that settler colonialism was, “a structure, not an event.”…
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Guest Shot: Vancouver viaducts removal clears way to honour Hogan’s Alley Vancouver Metro News 2016-11-10 Wayde Compton Vancouver writer Wayde Compton (Ayelet Tsabari/Submitted) Removal of the 1960s downtown infrastructure a chance to create a gathering space, an archive, for future black communities, argues Wayde Compton Last year, Vancouver City Council voted to take the Georgia…
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Blend it like Britain The Sunday Times The Times of London 2016-11-06 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown United colours: one in 10 people in this country are in a mixed relationship MORDECHAI MEIRI An acclaimed new movie, A United Kingdom, is set to shine a spotlight on mixed-race relationships — and how British women changed society’s attitude towards…
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A Mixed Race Feminist Blog Interview with Jamal Langley Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-11-29 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom Jamal Langley Interviewee Bio Hey. My name is Jamal Langley and I’m 22 years old. I aspire to be a public academic, which is an academic that creates knowledge that is of practical use in…
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Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race Verso Books January 2016 306 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781781689172 Hardback ISBN: 9781781689165 Ebook ISBN: 9781781689196 Patrick Wolfe Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose…
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Evolution of interracial marriage WSLS-TV 10 Roanoke, Virginia 2016-11-22 Brie Jackson, Anchor/Reporter ROANOKE (WSLS 10) – The story of one Virginia couple whose love for one another changed history is being shown on the big screen nationwide including the Grandin Theatre. “Loving” tells the story of Mildred and Richard Loving. He was white, she was…
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Carina E. Ray: Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana [Interview] New Books Network 2016-10-07 Dawne Curry, Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies University of Nebraska, Lincoln In Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana (Ohio University Press, 2015), Carina…