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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Category: Media Archive
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“Non-white” centers whiteness, and makes it the norm, leaving all the rest of us who are “othered” on the outside.
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In the last two decades, American Ashkenazi Jews have returned to the question of their Otherness, or, put more crudely, to the question of whether Ashkenazi Jews are White, “white-passing”, or something else entirely.
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Remember the choir, the preacher? The marriage symbolised a new era – then the tabloid onslaught began
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In “Beyond the Sunset,” Wayne Winkler uses contemporary press reports, long-forgotten documents, and interviews with participants to chronicle the struggles of an impoverished rural Appalachian county to maintain its viability in the modern world–and the unexpected consequences of that effort.
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“Thank God they are free,” one Londoner said. “All of this is about her race, I know it because as a Caribbean woman who did not grow up here, I have experienced it myself.”
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In this course, we will read fiction and graphic novels that investigate the phenomenon of racial passing in the United States, whereby “black” persons light-skinned enough to appear “white” cross the color line to live as white people.
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“Walking toward the Sunset” is a historical examination of the Melungeons, a mixed-race group predominantly in southern Appalachia.
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Shape Shifters: Journeys across Terrains of Race and Identity University of Nebraska Press January 2020 432 pages 8 photos, index Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4962-0663-3 eBook (EPUB) ISBN: 978-1-4962-1698-4 eBook (PDF) ISBN: 978-1-4962-1700-4 Edited by: Lily Anne Y. Welty Tamai, Curator of History Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, California Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly, Professor of History University of…
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For more than a century, skin lighteners have been an ubiquitous feature of global popular culture—embraced by consumers even as they were fiercely opposed by medical professionals, consumer health advocates, and antiracist thinkers and activists. In “Beneath the Surface,” Lynn M. Thomas constructs a transnational history of skin lighteners in South Africa and beyond.