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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Multiracial in the Workplace: A New Kind of Discrimination? Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Fall 2015 Speaker Series presents: “Multiracial in the Workplace: A New Kind of Discrimination?” University of Pittsburgh 2015-12-10 Tanya Hernandez, Professor of Law Fordham University Welcome by: Larry Davis, Dean, Donald M. Henderson Professor, and Director Center for Race and Social…
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Law is still black & white, not multiracial, Fordham prof says University Times: The Faculty & Staff Newspaper Since 1968 University of Pittsburgh 2016-01-07 Marty Levine Despite the fact that more people are identifying themselves as multiracial on the U.S. census, decisions in discrimination cases involving multiracial defendants still are primarily based on the presence…
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A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia, by Richard Dunn The English Historical Review Volume 130, Issue 547, December 2015 pages 1575-1577 DOI: 10.1093/ehr/cev299 Trevor Burnard, Professor of History University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia, by…
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When Skin Privilege and Racial Belonging Collide (not) Mixed (up): A Biracial Swirl in a Black and White World 2016-01-25 Shannon Luders-Manuel I’ve been thinking a lot about color / race privilege and why it’s such a hot button issue for the biracial community. In a Facebook group that I moderate, for mixed race women…
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Artist Phoebe Boswell explores what ‘home’ is, migration, family and Kenya’s troubled past True Africa 2015-11-05 Phoebe Boswell is one of the most exciting young artists working today. Her moving-image installation, The Matter of Memory, was exhibited at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery in London in 2014 alongside John Akomfrah and Rashaad Newsome. She is involved…
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Documenting the UK’s Black and Mixed Race Gingers Vice 2105-08-24 Natasha Culzac Francis Johnson by Michelle Marshall How would you describe a typical redhead? Do you think of Julianne Moore: light skinned and beautiful, with rust-coloured hair and a flush of crimson through her porcelain cheeks? Or do you think of Ed Sheeran? Either way,…