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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It’s official: Latinos now outnumber whites in California The Los Angeles Times 2015-07-08 Javier Panzar Source: The Los Angeles Times The demographers agreed: At some point in 2014, Latinos would pass whites as the largest ethnic group in California. Determining when exactly that milestone would occur was more of a tricky question. Counting people isn’t…
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The Divine Auditor Prarie Schooner: Stories, Poems, Essays, and Reviews since 1926 Volume 87, Issue 2 (2013 Summer) Sarah Valentine, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois It is still dark when my cell phone begins to buzz. When I flip it open, my mother’s voice comes through a connection often interrupted by…
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Q & A with Ana Carolina Vidal + her Afro-Futuristic project Rooted In Magazine 2015-07-08 Annina Chirade O Mestiço Revisited II, Ana Carolina Vidal São Paulo native, Ana Carolina Vidal, is a multi-racial Brazilian artist who explores the dynamics of her country through her art. Her work is largely focused on portraiture; each piece in…
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Respecting and Celebrating Black Writing and Storytelling presented by Dr Anita Heiss Flinders University 182 Victoria Square Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 2015-07-09, 18:00-19:00 ACDT (Local Time) Anita Heiss A NAIDOC Week event co-hosted by Yunggorendi First Nations Centre with the School of Humanities and Creative Arts Anita will address staff, students and members of the…
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Rag Radio 2015-07-03 – Historian Victoria Bynum on Southern History, Racial Violence & the Confederate Flag Rag Radio: Driving in the Left Lane! Cutting-edge alternative journalism, politics, and culture in the spirit of the Sixties underground press. KOOP 91.7 FM, Austin Texas Friday, 2015-07-03, 19:00-20:00Z (14:00-15:00 CDT) Thorne Dreyer, Host Victoria Bynum, Emeritus Professor of…
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Reclaiming Jewish Identity: An Aboriginal People of the Middle East The Huffington Post 2015-06-07 Binyamin Arazi Starting this September, after decades of lobbying efforts by Arab-American organizations, the United States Census Bureau will begin testing a new category for Americans of Middle Eastern and North African origin. In conjunction with this new listing, no less…
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Is it ’cause I’m not black? moniquerants: Education Lover. Discoverer of Healthy Eating. Headphone Raver. Opinionated Ranter. 2015-07-06 Monique Bell Years of mistaken identity and assumed whiteness have understandably left me with a miniature chip on my shoulder, and what better way to deal with that chip than writing to the world about it? In…
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When I Was White The Chronicle Review The Chronicle of Higher Education 2015-07-06 Sarah Valentine, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Sarah Valentine as a girl, with her two brothers (Source: Family photo) Rachel Dolezal’s recent unmasking as a white woman living as black sparked a debate about the legitimacy of “transracial”…
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I am interested in black and mixed-race dancers, ballerinas in particular, because I see almost none in the major classical companies. Like me, the gay boy who didn’t want to be Prince Siegfied but Odette, they too are “other.” Now, when I am teaching “swan arms” to my students I think of Darci Kistler and…