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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Five Queers Of Color On What Connects Us To Our Complicated Or Mixed-Race Identities Autostraddle 2015-01-02 Hannah Hodson There is a sense of community that comes with being a person of color, but for some of us, settling into that community isn’t always comfortable. Because we don’t get a membership card along with our birth…
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Audiology freshman talks finding cultural identity on campus The Daily Texan: Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 2016-08-31 Henry Youtt Audiology freshman Karis Paul is the daughter of an Indian father and a half-Irish, half-Austrian mother. Mixed-race students make up only 3 percent of the students on campus. Photo Credit: Juan…
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What Colin Kaepernick’s Protest Looks Like to a Black 49ers Fan The New York Times 2016-08-31 Gerald Harris, President and Managing Director The Quantum Planning Group, San Francisco, California Colin Kaepernick Credit Ben Margot/Associated Press San Francisco — Why are we, as sports fans, continually surprised when one of our heroes turns out to be…
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Passing in Boston: The Story of the Healy Family WGBHForum 2014-03-26 Boston College history professor, James O’Toole discusses his newest book Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920, which documents the extraordinary life of the Healy brothers of Boston. In the mid-1800’s, the Healy brothers of Boston, James, Patrick, and Sherwood, looked…
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When Black Is Brown: The African Diaspora in Mexico The Museum of African American Art Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza Macy’s 3rd Floor 4005 Crenshaw Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90008 2016-06-05 through 2016-09-18 Opening Reception: 2016-06-05, 14:00-17:00 PDT (Local Time) WHERE BLACK IS BROWN: The African Diaspora In Mexico opens Sunday, June 5, 2016, with a…
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Local Author Dmae Roberts Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Avenue Portland, Oregon 97227 2016-09-01, 19:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time) Dmae Roberts will read from her book and give a preview of a larger conversation that will be coming soon with the Oregon Humanities Conversation Project. The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed-Race Family traces four decades…
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Interview with Jonathan Xavier Inda on Racial Prescriptions Theory, Culture & Society 2015-12-22 Sibille Merz, Doctoral Researcher Goldsmiths, University of London Questioning Racial Prescriptions: An interview with Jonathan Xavier Inda Sibille Merz: Racial Prescriptions provides a timely, illuminating and theoretically-engaged analysis of the making of BiDil, the first (and only) drug that was marketed exclusively…
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Colin Kaepernick’s True Sin The Atlantic 2016-08-30 Adam Serwer, Senior Editor The San Francisco quarterback has been attacked for refusing to stand for the Star Spangled Banner—and for daring to criticize the system in which he thrived. It was in early childhood when W.E.B. Du Bois––scholar, activist, and black radical––first noticed The Veil that separated…