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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Three Very Rare Generations The New York Times 1992-12-13 Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Columbia University Soul To Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865-1992. By Yelena Khanga with Susan Jacoby. Illustrated. 318 pp. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. $22.95. AMONG its other consequences, the demise of the Soviet Union has…
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The Femme Fatale in American Literature Cambria Press 2008-09-28 192 pages 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm ISBN: 9781604975352 Ghada Suleiman Sasa, Assistant Professor of English Literature Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan Characters in the literary tradition of American naturalism are usually perceived as passive, lacking in will, weak, and predetermined. They are…
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I’ve experienced a new level of racism since Donald Trump went after Latinos The Guardian 2015-09-09 Tina Vasquez I have never been asked the type of questions I’m now fielding from white people – and I’m not the only one Donald Trump’s hate speech against Latinos seems to be emboldening white Americans’ racism. For many,…
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My Music Is My Soul, My Language Is My Armor Psychology Today 2014-12-02 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Ed.D. Stanford University Byron’s story of identity, healing, and empowerment “One night at a pub I heard the sound of traditional Okinawan folk music, and it was like being hit in the head with a hammer. The impact was like…
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Girl in need of bone marrow highlights shortage of mixed-race donors The Chicago Tribune 2015-09-13 Vikki Ortiz Healy When doctors told Michelle Trujillo in July that her 6-year-old daughter would need a bone marrow transplant to save her life, the Crystal Lake mother didn’t want to wait another minute before getting her only child back…
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Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction Awarded to Louise Erdrich News from the Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2015-03-17 Winner to Participate in This Year’s National Book Festival Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has announced that Louise Erdrich, author of such critically acclaimed novels as “Love Medicine,” “The Last Report on the Miracles…
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First black and minority ethnic orchestra to make debut BBC News 2015-09-11 Lizo Mzimba Europe’s first professional orchestra consisting entirely of black and minority ethnic musicians will make its debut this weekend at the Southbank Centre in London. The Chineke orchestra has been created to promote diversity in a musical world that is predominantly white.…
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James Blake doesn’t want NYPD cop who tackled him to ‘ever have a badge and gun again’ The New York Daily News 2015-09-12 Wayne Coffey, Special Reporter Rich Schapiro, Staff Writer Retired tennis star James Blake said Saturday the NYPD cop who brutally wrestled him to the ground should be served his walking papers. “I…