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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The First Family: A New Glimpse of Michelle Obama’s White Ancestors The New York Times 2016-06-22 Rachel L. Swarns, Correspondent New York Times We knew that the Sunday article about Mrs. Obama’s white ancestors would stir considerable interest so we decided to invite readers to pose questions and make comments. We never imagined that one…
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Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South (review) Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 15, Number 2, June 2012 pages 225-227 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2012.0017 Jennifer Ho, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill In her acknowledgements, Leslie Bow admits that she began her research project in…
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English 190: Research Seminar: Literature of Racial Passing University of California, Berkeley Spring 2012 Cecil S. Giscombe, Professor of English A passing narrative is an account—fiction or nonfiction—of a person (or group) claiming a racial or ethnic identity that she does not (or they do not) “possess.” Such narratives speak—directly, indirectly, and very uneasily—to the…
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Half-Polish, Half-Italian, All-Black 2nd Story Chicago, Illinois 2012-04-21 James Anthony Zoccoli Little Jimmy is a half-Italian, half-Polish kid. When his parents divorce, he watches his family dynamic change when his mom gets remarried to an African-American man. Sometimes funny, sometimes complicated, the hard parts of growing up are easier to talk about from a grown-up…
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the greek Story Week Reader Story Week Reader 2011 pages 31-32 Chris “C.T.” Terry, Writer, Editor, Educator I was nervous on my first day working in the African-American Cultural Affairs section of my school’s Multicultural Office. My boss Kim introduced me to coworkers, and I imagined my blue eyes to be the subject of appraising…
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The Language of Hairzilla SmokeLong Quarterly Issue 33 (2011-10-02) Chris Terry, Writer, Editor, Educator cover art “Sparta, NJ” by David Ohlerking Art by Myles Karr Punk is a revelation the first time your skateboarding friend takes you to a show. You’re fifteen in saggy jeans. You watch bands emerge from the audience, lay waste…
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Mixed race: Fastest growing demographic in Canada The Province Vancouver, British Columbia 2012-06-24 Sam Cooper …And the hardest in the world to find a match for blood cells; one in millions, literally Brutal. Intensive. Without hope. Those are words that just don’t translate when you hear the voice of 14-year-old Lourdess Sumners, of Duncan. She’s…
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The Impersonator 2nd Story Chicago, Illinois 2012-03-24 Chris Terry, Writer, Editor, Educator A biracial man who is often told that he looks like certain celebrities goes to a Brooklyn bar, where he has an encounter with a guy whose strange profession makes him really good at The “You Look Like” Game. Listen to the podcast…