Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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SANDS OF TIME: American Beach nears 80-year anniversary The Florida Times-Union Jacksonville, Florida 2014-10-13 Alec Newell The extended family of Zephaniah Kingsley, Anna Jai, and their descendants have been major players in shaping the history of Northeast Florida during three colonial periods, American territorial times, Florida statehood and on into the 20th century. Between Lake…
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Raven-Symoné, Oprah, and What it Means to be (African) American The Huffington Post Black Voices 2014-10-13 A. B. Wilkinson, Assistant Professor of History University of Nevada, Las Vegas Last week entertainer Raven-Symoné appeared on Oprah: Where Are They Now? and proudly stated that she was in “an amazing, happy relationship” with a woman, yet what…
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Down Blige Road: Where There’s No Place Like Home Richmond Hill Reflections Richmond Hill, Georgia Volume 10, Number 4 (September 2014) pages 57-60 Leslie Ann Berg (Photos by Callie Beale Photography) Richmond Hill’s history is engrained deep within the walls of its old buildings, street names, and its land. But there is another place where…
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What It’s Like To Be Half-Japanese Thought Catalog 2014-10-08 Michelle Reimann Eurasian, half-Japanese, bi-racial, mixed race, hafu, hapa, double, hybrid, dual culture, TCK (third culture kid,) the axis of evil (yeah, yeah: I am German and Japanese, get over it.) However you choose to describe me my lineage is often one of the most frequently…
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Civil War memorial to honor Toolesboro brothers The Cedar Rapids Gazette Iowa City, Iowa 2014-09-23 Alison Gowans, Features Reporter LOUISA COUNTY, Iowa — When the six Littleton brothers of tiny Toolesboro set off for war, their sisters had no idea they would never welcome their brothers home. The young Louisa County men all sacrificed their…
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Iowa memorial for six brothers who died as Union soldiers The Washington Post 2014-05-07 Linda Wheeler A site was approved Tuesday for a memorial to honor six brothers of an African American farm family of Toolesboro, Iowa, who died as Union soldiers during the Civil War. The Louisa County Board of Supervisors choose a site…
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Tangled Roots: A Performance of Real-Life Stories Celebrating Mixed Race Families Trinity Centre Trinity Road Bristol, England BS2 0NW 2014-10-19, 14:00-20:00 BST (Local Time) Free life-writing workshop and performance with Dr Katy Massey – part of our Black History Month programme On Sunday 19 October, Tangled Roots are staging a live workshop and performance event…
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Am I Black Enough For You? By Anita Heiss [Milatovic Review] Transnational Literature Volume 6, Number 2, May 2014 3 pages Maja Milatovic University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Anita Heiss: Am I Black Enough for You? (Random House: Sydney, 2012) Anita Heiss’ Am I Black Enough for You? is a compelling and deeply affective…