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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How a UNH student inspired one of America’s first “race films” and why we’re still talking about it
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A mixed-race son choosing his identity is a lesson for us all The San Francisco Chronicle 2022-05-03 Kevin Fisher-Paulson This week, Aidan decided he is Black. He announced this at the family dinner table, as we served mashed potatoes, green beans and meat loaf. Aidan used to like my meat loaf, but everything changes. Aidan’s…
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The Grammy award-winning album, released by Nonesuch last April, has been widely celebrated by the NY Times, NPR Music, NPR, Rolling Stone, People, Associated Press and far beyond, with No Depression deeming it “a near perfect album…her finest work to date.”
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I always felt like an outsider, but being mixed is filled with beauty and complexity.
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My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist’s Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole Farrar, Straus and Giroux (an imprint of Macmillan Publishers) 2022-05-03 240 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780374604875 Audio ISBN: 9781250856319 Digital Audio ISBN: 9781250856326 e-Book ISBN: 9780374604882 Will Jawando, Councilmember Montgomery County, Maryland Will Jawando tells a deeply affirmative…
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A compelling takedown of prevailing myths about human behavior, updated and expanded to meet the current moment.
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This book explores the life and contributions of groundbreaking attorney, Elreta Melton Alexander Ralston (1919-98). In 1945 Alexander became the first African American woman to graduate from Columbia Law School.