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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NBA Star Amar’e Stoudemire Is Moving to Israel — Because He’s a Hebrew Israelite Forward 2016-08-01 Sam Kestenbaum, Staff Writer This week, basketball star Amar’e Stoudemire ended a celebrated 14-year career with the NBA. The six-time All-Star spent most of his career with the Phoenix Suns and the New York Knicks, before finishing with the…
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Passing: A Bi-Racial Perspective On Racial Inequality In America Cappuccino Queen 2014-12-03 Hera McLeod In the past few years, it seems like topic of race has gotten to a boiling point many times. Particularly, it seems, as it relates to the American Justice System. When Trayvon Martin was gunned down in February of 2012, I…
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The unique and beautifully written story of one multiracial woman’s journey of acceptance and identity that tackles the fraught topic of race in America.
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Justine Jane M. Bolin (First Negro woman judge in the U.S.A.) The Crisis Volume 49, Number 9 (September 1939) THE COVER Miss Jane M. Bolin became on July 22 the first colored woman Judge in the United States when Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia appointed her and swore her in as a justice of the Court of…
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Madame E. Azalia Hackley was an African American classical singer, social worker, writer, philanthropist, and activist who championed the use of African-American spirituals among the African-American people as a tool for social change. Her efforts laid the groundwork for the use of spirituals as freedom songs during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Born a Slave: Rediscovering Arthur Jackson’s African American Heritage The Orderly Pack Rat 2015-04-25 328 pages 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0970430816 David W. Jackson By the close of the Civil War in 1865 all American slaves became free citizens. Suddenly a new life dawned for them and their descendants. Arthur Jackson,…
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Putting The Past Behind Them: Slave Descendant Unites With Plantation Owner Growing Wisconsin 2016-07-13 Lynne Hayes The dinner was historic on many levels. On one side of the table sat Nkrumah Steward, 44, the ancestor of a slave. On the other side of the table sat Robert Adams, the ancestor of the man who owned…
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Half-Asian Tattooers Use Art To Confront Mixed Race Stereotypes Konbini 2016-08-04 Morgan English Five Asian-Canadian artists (some female, some genderqueer) have joined forces for a new exhibit that explores what it means to be half-Asian in the west. Of the crew, four are also tattooers: Nomi Chi, Mandy Tsung, Shannon Elliott and Katie So. Their…