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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Caballeros and Indians: Mexican American Whiteness, Hegemonic Mestizaje, and Ambivalent Indigeneity in Proto-Chicana/o Autobiographical Discourse, 1858–2008 MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 38, Issue 1 (March 2013) pages 30-49 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mls010 B. V. Olguín, Associate Professor of English University of Texas, San Antonio In the spirit of a new people that is conscious…
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Many Black New Yorkers Are Seeing de Blasio’s Victory as Their Own The New York Times 2013-11-10 Michael M. Grynbaum Reporting was contributed by Michael Barbaro, Kia Gregory, Winnie Hu, Sarah Maslin Nir, Julie Turkewitz and Vivian Yee. A black janitor in Brooklyn almost shouted out the name when asked about his vote in the…
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The 99% Mayor New York Magazine 2013-10-27 Chris Smith Bill de Blasio’s promise may also be his problem. He is joking, but he’s not kidding. “When I spoke last time, they needed a much smaller room,” Bill de Blasio says to laughter. “This is the glory of American democracy!” Exactly one year earlier, De Blasio…
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Biracial Cool: Bill de Blasio’s Fresh Electoral Asset The Atlantic 2013-11-06 Kevin Noble Maillard, Professor of Law Syracuse University The New York mayor-elect’s family—both fascinatingly ordinary and shockingly modern—proved to be one his greatest strengths. “I’m Bill de Blasio, and I’m not a boring white guy.” How’s that for a political opener? This is how…
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The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium [Ibrahim Review] Modern Language Quarterly Volume 74, Number 4, December 2013 page 566 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-2153679 Habiba Ibrahim, Associate Professor of English University of Washington The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium. By Elam Michele. Stanford, CA:…
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Cuba’s mixed-race population grows Fox News Latino 2013-11-08 EFE News Service The number of mixed-race people in Cuba continues to increase as the ranks of those identifying themselves as white or black declines, according to the results of the 2012 Census released Friday. The proportion of mixed-race people grew from 24.9 percent in 2002 to…
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How Diversity Will Alter Black History The Root 2013-11-06 Lynette Holloway A changing population will help shed more light on America’s multiracial past. (The Root)—This is part 3 of a three-part series. To see the previous stories, here and here. Time was, the social construct of the one-drop rule made United States history either black…