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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The Relationship of Identity to the Organizational Development of FLECHAS: Perceptions of Race from a Puerto Rican Perspective The Forensic Examiner June 2015 Raul A. Avila The Puerto Rican preoccupation with “whitening” and incidents of black racism obfuscate Puerto Rican identity. The “deliberate amnesia” regarding their genetic and cultural connection with Black African slaves compels…
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Father Healy’s Imprint: Past, Present and Future The Hoya Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2004-11-09 Moises Mendoza Every day thousands of students pass by Healy Hall and marvel at its towering steeples and complex intricacies. Few of them realize that the man responsible for this Georgetown trademark was every bit as complex and dynamic as the…
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QUALLEN: Healy’s Inner Turmoil, Our Current Conflict The Hoya Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2015-11-20 Matthew Quallen, “Hoya Historian” School of Foreign Service Last week, President DeGioia accepted a recommendation to scrub the names Mulledy and McSherry from university buildings. The names Freedom and Remembrance took their places. Mulledy and McSherry symbolized what was most odious…
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life (Race & Difference Colloquium Series) Emory University Robert W. Woodruff Library, Jones Room 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta, Georgia 30322 Monday, 2016-02-15, 12:00-13:30 EST (Local Time) Presented by: James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History…
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Two men in a burning house must not stop to argue –African Proverb
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Dating stories project Black Girl Dancing at Lughnasa 2016-01-28 Emma Dabiri In continuing on the work of Who Stole All the Black Women from Britain?, I am collecting stories about race and dating for an exciting new project. I want to hear your experiences of dating within and outside your racial group. Do black men…