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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“Please select one”: Growing up with a multiracial identity The Seattle Globalist 2016-11-31 Jaya Duckworth, Senior Garfield High School, Seattle, Washington Jaya Duckworth (second from right) and friends hold signs showing pride in multiracial identities at a school district-wide walkout in protest of the election of Donald Trump. (Photo courtesy Jaya Duckworth.) Race: Please select…
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An Unsung Hero in the Story of Interracial Marriage The New Yorker 2016-11-17 David Muto, Copy Editor/Senior Web Producer Bill and Carol Muto on their wedding day, eight years after the U.S. Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, struck down interracial-marriage bans. COURTESY BILL AND CAROL MUTO At my parents’ wedding, in Blacksburg, Virginia, my…
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The New American Face The Atlantic 2016-11-21 James Hamblin, Senior Editor The least and most attractive male faces, based on statistical models. Leaders are stoking human tendencies toward tribalism—but this instinct can be overcome more easily than once thought. Since the election of Donald Trump, President Barack Obama has shifted into a prophylactic stance. He…
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Citizen Monsters: Race and Cannibalism in Suzette Mayr’s Venous Hum Andrea Beverley, Assistant Professor of Canadian Cultural and Literary Studies Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes Volume 47, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 36-58 Halfway through Suzette Mayr’s 2004 novel Venous Hum, a number of the central characters…
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“After Canaan,” the first nonfiction book by acclaimed Vancouver poet Wayde Compton, repositions the North American discussion of race in the wake of the tumultuous twentieth century. It riffs on the concept of Canada as a promised land (or “Canaan”) encoded in African American myth and song since the days of slavery.