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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“It really gave me an access point into the history of my family that otherwise would have remained hidden,” the first-time director says
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NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to Nadia Owusu about her memoir, Aftershocks.
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My ethnographic data argue that despite Cuba’s colourblind racial democracy – where race “does not matter” because all races are “treated equally” – the familial narratives of ancestry actively reinforce the complex racial landscape and illustrates the superiority of whiteness that belie this ideal.
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Seattle-based Coast Guard cutter’s journey through the Arctic: No ‘ice liberty’ in changing waters The Seattle Times 2021-10-20 Hal Bernton, Staff Reporter The Coast Guard Cutter Healy in the iceberg-laden waters of Baffin Bay near Umanak Fjord, Greenland, on Sept. 24. Healy was designed to support a wide range of Arctic research activities with more…
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The Galton Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Man (1918–1935) The Embryo Project Encyclopedia 2021-06-03 Aliya R. Hoff, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology Arizona State University Charles Benedict Davenport, Madison Grant, and Henry Fairfield Osborn founded the Galton Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Man, or the Galton…
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Race is a Social Construct Center for Health Progress2017-10-24 Sarah McAfeeGolden, Colorado On a recent road trip with my sister, a doctor, we were talking about how race is a social construct. (We’re not the best conversationalists.) She asked, “If there’s no biological basis for race, then why do some medications work better for people…
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An Education for All: Teacher Educated Her Hampton Students `for Eternity’ The Daily Press Norfolk, Virginia 1995-02-07 Felice Belman Mary S. Peake HAMPTON — Mary S. Peake was so devoted to her students that she taught them even when it was illegal to do so. She was so dedicated to education that, even after the…
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Olivia Ward Bush-Banks and New Negro Indigeneity MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United StatesVolume 45, Issue 3, Fall 2020pages 104–128Published: 03 July 2020DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlaa033 DeLisa D. Hawkes, Assistant Professor of EnglishUniversity of Texas, El Paso Among New Negro Renaissance greats such as Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and Wallace Thurman, early…