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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They Pretend To Be Us While Pretending We Don’t Exist BuzzFeed 2015-09-11 Jenny Zhang, BuzzFeed Contributor Will Varner / BuzzFeed White poet Michael Derrick Hudson’s use of the Chinese pen name Yi-Fen Chou was an act of yellowface that is part of a long tradition of white voices drowning out those of color in the…
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This book explores the history of African tangible and intangible heritages and its links with the public memory of slavery in Brazil and Angola. The two countries are deeply connected, given how most enslaved Africans, forcibly brought to Brazil during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, were from West Central Africa.
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James Blake and the Myth of an Unarrestable Black Man The Daily Beast 2015-09-10 Tomás Ríos Bill Bratton said race ‘had nothing at all to do’ with tennis star James Blake’s wrongful collaring and arrest. The numbers tell a different story. What does a non-white person have to do for the police to leave them…
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Vulnerability as Empowerment in the Classroom Education Week 2015-09-09 Christina Torres, Middle and high school English and Drama Teacher University Laboratory School, Honolulu, Hawaii It’s back-to-school time for many students and teachers this week. For many, it means that 20 to 120 new faces enter our classrooms and our lives. Jessica, a fifth-grade teacher in…
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Serena Williams, Tiger Woods and racial identity in sports ESPN 2015-09-05 Mike Wise, Senior Writer Mike Wise writes that Serena Williams has embraced her blackness and found a spiritual home while Tiger Woods has been proudly biracial and found a perhaps unintended kind of isolation You can’t miss the term “black excellence” pulsating through Claudia…
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Hapa-palooza 2015: Celebrate mixed heritage and own your identity Vancouver Observer Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2015-09-06 Jordan Yerman Mixed-race, outsider, or ‘half-breed’: you’re not alone at Hapa-palooza. Get in on Canada’s largest celebration of mixed heritage. Tôi là người lai mỹ means “I’m an American half-breed”. Author and publisher Brandy Liên Worrall wrote it in…
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Love Across the Color Line: Remembering Alan Kaplan KCET TV Burbank, California 2015-09-10 Erin Aubry Kaplan Fourteen years ago I wrote an article for Salon.com published for Valentine’s Day about how I met my husband, Alan Kaplan. I ended the article on a cautionary note: our hugely improbable, racially romantic story did not mean that…
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Grits and Sushi: Mitzi Uehara Carter muses on being black and Okinawan Metropolis Magazine 2015-09-06 Baye Mcneil Mitzi Uehara Carter Though Mitzi Uehara Carter was born on the opposite side of the Pacific, she’s kept herself anything but distant from her hereditary home. This Texas-native daughter of an African-American father and an Okinawan mother is…
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Vancouver’s Hapa Festival, All Grown Up The Tyee Vancouver, British Columbia Canada 2015-09-03 Christopher Cheung From one generation to another, an identity conversation continues. Jeff Chiba Stearns is about to be a father in November, and there’s an important conversation he wants to have with his daughter that he never had with his own family…