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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Based on a critical race study in a racially desegregated elementary school, I illustrate how one drop of white discourse from even one less racially literate white teacher can cause usually more racially literate white teachers to support white supremacy.
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After a complimentary glass of Ethiopian honey wine, we settle straight in.
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How the high school athlete endured his infamous haircut
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I caught up with Dr. Chanda, as she is known to many on Twitter (@IBJIYONGI), via Skype, and what follows is a discussion that goes from dark matter to how whiteness operates in physics.
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“Black Indian,” searing and raw, is Amy Tan’s “The Joy Luck Club” and Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” meets Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Ceremony”—only, this isn’t fiction.
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My father was raised under Jim Crow. My children could pass for white. Where does that leave me?
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There is no stable ground to stand on in “Black No More.” Its irony and merciless satire steadfastly resist the anthropological gaze of the reader. It is a novel in whiteface. And while black literature is almost always read as either autobiography or sociology, Schuyler’s work can be read as neither.