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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Thomas C. Gannon’s “Birding While Indian” spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author’s life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains.
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An award-winning journalist tells the story of his quest to reconcile with his white mother and the family he’d never met—and how faith brought them all together.
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Herb Harris Explores How His Grandparents’ Defied Racial Categorization
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Race had been a source of confusion throughout my childhood, and I wondered if the original purpose of Topsy-Turvy dolls might have been to help mixed-race children understand their identities. As an object of play, the dolls might have enabled these children to grasp the paradox of who they were and understand their relationships with…
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Georgia Louise Harris Brown (June 12, 1918 – September 21, 1999) Pioneering Women of American Architecture October 2017 Anat Falbel University of Campinas, Brazil Roberta Washington, Principal Roberta Washington Architects, New York, New York Georgia Louise Harris Brown (1918–1999), a pioneering African American architect practicing in Chicago and Brazil from the 1940s to the 1990s,…
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Despite the Nuremberg Laws, some Black people and so called German “Aryans” still became romantically involved with one another. These relationships were dangerous for both partners, especially if they chose to try to legally marry.
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Does this fight or fuel racism?
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The Other Mother, A Novel Counterpoint Press (an imprint of Penguin Random House) 2022-05-03 432 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 9781640095045 Rachel M. Harper An “extraordinary” page-turning generational saga about a young man’s search for a parent he never knew, and a moving portrait of motherhood, race, and the truths we hide in the…