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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Author, 18, from Williamsburg examines race through his family’s eyes in book The Virginia Gazette Williamsburg, Virginia 2016-02-16 Heather Bridges, Contact Reporter Canaan Kennedy, 18, is a freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University who grew up in Williamsburg. He recently published a book, his first, on family members’ experiences with race. (Heather Bridges / The Virginia…
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life Emory University 2016-02-18 In this Race and Difference Colloquium, Allyson Hobbs, an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Stanford University, discusses her first book, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, published by Harvard University Press in October…
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Allyson Hobbs: A Chosen Exile Miami University Room 1 Upham Hall 100 Bishop Circle Oxford, Ohio 45056 Thursday, 2016-02-25, 17:00 EST (Local Time) The E.E. McClellan Lecture in History Allyson Hobbs is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Stanford University. Her book A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life,…
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Unwanted in their mothers’ country and unwelcome in their fathers’ homeland, Filipino Amerasians are still in search of a home.
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Mixed Kids Aren’t Going to Save the World Leah and Black History Month 2016-02-16 Leah Anneli I have a Black father and a white mother. I’m mixed. I’m not a unicorn. I think there are some misconceptions about who mixed race people are and what function we serve in society. Let’s unpack those. We’re not…
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The True Story of the ‘Free State of Jones’ The Smithsonian Magazine March 2016 Richard Grant; Photographs by William Widmer A new Hollywood movie looks at the tale of the Mississippi farmer who led a revolt against the Confederacy With two rat terriers trotting at his heels, and a long wooden staff in his hand,…