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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A New Book for Those Who Cling to a “Post-Racial” Christianity Religion Dispatches 2017-02-17 In The Death of Race, Brian Bantum explores the theological underpinnings of cultural understandings of race and gender. What inspired you to write The Death of Race? Truthfully, this wasn’t the book I had wanted to write right now. There is…
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For years, people have asked Gail Song Bantum and Brian Bantum to reveal the secret to their marriage as a multiracial Christian couple, each with a high-profile ministry calling. This book reveals the lessons, mistakes, and principles that have helped the Bantums navigate race, family history, and gender dynamics in their twenty-plus years of marriage,…
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A small plaque marks the spot where the man believed to be Britain’s first black school teacher educated children in a Scottish village.
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Race, widely used as a variable across biomedical research and medicine, is an appropriate proxy for racism — but not for anything biological. Proposals to use genetic ancestry instead of race are at risk of perpetuating the same problems.
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Marguerite Penrose’s is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father.
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How a slave’s daughter became an 1800s New Orleans entrepreneur: A Marigny cottage helps tell the tale NOLA.com 2022-05-09 Mike Scott, Contributing Writer The house at 1515-17 Pauger St. in New Orleans sold in 2016 for $600,000. (Photo by David Grunfeld, NOLA.com |The Times-Picayune) The little Creole cottage at 1515-17 Pauger St. in the Marigny…
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Latinx Files: When Mexicans became ‘White’-ish The Los Angeles Times 2022-05-12 Fidel Martinez “We didn’t receive the rights of white people, only the illusion.” (Martina Ibáñez-Baldor / Los Angeles Times; Getty Images) Hi folks, Fidel here. Every once in a while, I’ll ask a guest writer to take over the main story. We’ve experimented with…
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Dr. Albert C. Johnston, Negro physician in Keene, N. H., whose story of passing for white was told in the movie “Lost Boundaries,” was fired from his post as radiologist at Keene’s Elliott Community Hospital.