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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This study is an examination of the American mestizos who lived in the Philippines from 1900 to 1955. No scholarly studies exist that analyze and historicize this group, but this is understandable, as the population of the American mestizos compared to the overall Filipino population is miniscule, never exceeding 20,000 individuals at any one time.
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Losing My Cool: Love, Literature, and a Black Man’s Escape from the Crowd Penguin Books April 2010 240 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780143119623 ePub ISBN: 9781101404348 Thomas Chatterton Williams Growing up, Thomas Chatterton Williams knew he loved three things in life: his parents, literature, and the intoxicating hip-hop culture that surrounded him. For years, he managed…
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The Birth of A Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America’s Civil War PublicAffairs 2014-11-04 368 pages 6.300 x 9.500 Hardcover ISBN: 9781586489878 eBook ISBN: 9781586489885 Dick Lehr, Professor of Journalism Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts In 1915, two men—one a journalist agitator, the other a technically brilliant filmmaker—incited a public confrontation…
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Racial Passing and the Raj American Historical Association 129th Annual Meeting New York, New York 2015-01-02 through 2015-01-05 Saturday, 2015-01-03, 15:10 EST (Local Time) Park Suite 3 (Sheraton New York) Uther Charlton-Stevens Volgograd State University, Volgograd, Russia Racial passing is a subject that has attracted much attention in the historiography of the Americas, as well…
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Racism And Redemption At The Tournament Of Roses Parade Forbes 2014-12-31 Andrew Bender, Business Travel Blogger Joan Williams holds the portrait from 1957, when she was Miss Crown City. On January 1, 2015, after 57 years, she will finally get to ride in the Tournament of Roses Parade. (Photo credit: Savannah Wood) The theme of…
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Woman rides in Rose Bowl parade almost 60 years after being snubbed because of her race The Washington Post 2015-01-01 Diana Reese Overland Park, Kansas Racism “was a fact of life,” Joan Williams says about 1958, the year she was supposed to ride on a city-sponsored float in the Rose Parade of Pasadena. The 27-year-old…
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Joan Williams in Rose Parade after nearly 60 years, but some wonder why she wasn’t in broadcast Pasadena Star-News Pasadena, California 2015-01-01 Christina Gullickson, Reporter Joan Williams, 82, right, rides the theme banner float Inspiring Stories, along Colorado Blvd. during the Rose Parade in Pasadena, California on January 1, 2015. (Photo by Leo Jarzomb/ Pasadena…
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I Don’t See Race; I Only See Grayish-Brown, Vaguely Humanoid Shapes The Onion Issue 50•49, 2014-12-12 Janice Ketchum I don’t understand why everyone seems to be so angry lately. Everywhere you look, there are marches, protests, riots—and all of it over so-called racism in our great country. I just don’t get it. I really don’t.…