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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Even today, being biracial in America is not always easy Observer-Reporter Washington County News Washington, Pennsylvania 2016-12-17 Karen Mansfield, Staff Writer Celeste Van Kirk/Observer-Reporter Dontae Monday, a student at Washington & Jefferson College, stands in front of Old Main recently. Koron Harris is used to strangers sneaking glances at her, and she knows why. “They’re…
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Book Reviews: Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist [Geiger Review] Comparative Civilizations Review Volume 75, Number 75, Fall 2016 Article 11 pages 125-126 Pedro Geiger G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania University Press, 2012 The long and excellent book by Reginald…
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Where Has All the Loving Gone? A Review of the New Film, ‘Loving’ African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2016-11-27 Peter Cole, Professor of History Western Illinois University A new film about the Southern working class couple whose love and dedication broke the back of anti-miscegenation laws across the nation arrives just in time. Released…
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Beacon Goes to the Movies: “Loving” and the History of White Supremacy Beacon Broadside: A Project of Beacon Press 2016-12-15 Ayla Zuraw-Friedland, Editorial Assistant When publicity assistant Perpetua Charles and senior editor Joanna Green first began planning a staff trip to see the film Loving in celebration of Beacon’s forthcoming book on the same topic…
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My fear killer will get pension, by daughter of train IRA bomb victim The Belfast Telegraph 2016-12-17 David Young Jayne Olorunda The daughter of a man killed in an IRA blast on a train has claimed her elderly mother would be excluded from a proposed victims’ pension scheme while the IRA terrorist whose bomb killed…
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A Comic’s Secret Southern Story Below The Line Garden & Gun 2016-12-13 CJ Lotz A panel from “Krazy Kat.” Courtesy Krazy Before “The Far Side,” “Calvin and Hobbes,” or even Mickey Mouse, one cartoon stole the show. From 1913 to 1944, a panel called “Krazy Kat” ran in newspapers across the country and counted “Peanuts” creator…
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BETWEEN us, my husband and I have got Spanish, Filipino, Chinese, Slovakian, English, Scottish and Irish heritage. In appearance, he’s Asian and I’m caucasian. This is 2016 and so you wouldn’t even think that was even worth mentioning. But the fact is, reasonably often this affects the way other people treat us.