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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My interracial family needs its own action figures The Washington Post 2015-08-06 Nevin Martell (Courtesy of the author) Growing up, I can recall owning only two black action figures in a massive collection that spanned movies, television and comic book characters. There was Lando Calrissian – the smooth talking, caped czar of Cloud City in…
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Poitier Revisited: Reconsidering a Black Icon in the Obama Age Bloomsbury Publishing 2015-01-15 288 pages 25 bw illus 229 x 152 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781623564919 Edited by: Ian Gregory Strachan, Associate Professor of English College of The Bahamas Mia Mask, Associate Professor of Film Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Sidney Poitier remains one of the…
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Book Review: CAUCASIA MixedRaceBooks 2016-07-26 Bethany Lam Senna, Danzy, Caucasia: A Novel (New York: Riverhead, 1999) Two biracial sisters—one light-skinned, one dark—are separated as children. The younger, lighter girl grows into a troubled teenager, but she never forgets her beloved older sister. Can she find her sister again … and with her sister, her self?…
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Book Review: “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life” by Allyson Hobbs The Santa Fe New Mexican 2015-05-15 Adele Oliveira A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs, Harvard University Press, 382 pages In the first chapter of The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du…
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One-sided Biracial TV Families– Why Are So Many Asian Moms MIA? AsAmNews 2015-08-05 Laylita Day I started to notice a disturbing trend among certain TV shows. Each one featured a biracial character, specifically a woman who had an Asian mom and White dad. The disturbing part of this was the fact that none of the…
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A lot of people when they look at me and when I reveal to them that I’m half Korean, they say that they don’t see it at all and think that I’m black. I get a lot of people that say that and they try to impose their own classification of my identity and I…