Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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#MemeOfTheWeek: The Racial Politics Of Nikki Haley National Public Radio 2016-01-16 Sam Sanders, Reporter, Washington Desk Gov. Nikki Haley, R-S.C. at Charleston, S.C., Republican presidential debate Thursday. Andrew Burton/Getty Images Depending on whom you ask, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s State of the Union response this week was either going to save the modern Republican…
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Bendición: The Complete Poetry of Tato Laviera Arte Público Press 2014-11-30 346 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55885-800-8 Tato Laviera (1950-2013) Introduction by: Laura Lomas Preface by: Nicolás Kanellos “i think in spanish / i write in english / i want to go back to puerto rico / but I wonder if my kink could live /…
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“Crossing from Guangdong:” A Poem | Sarah Howe | TEDxHarvardCollege TEDx Talks 2015-12-02 The poet is always in a foreign country. Poet Sarah Howe shares a beautiful, melodic poem about crossing borders to find the China her mother left behind during the Communist Revolution. Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. Her first…
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Remembering Julian Bond (1940-2015) Politico 2015-12-29 Josh Zeitz Getty For many Americans, Julian Bond, who died in August at age 75, was quite literally the voice of the modern civil rights movement. In the early 1960s, when he served as communications director for the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and in later years, as…
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Meet The 63rd Black Woman In American History With A Physics Ph.D. The Huffington Post 2015-06-24 Nico Pitney Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a 32-year-old theoretical astrophysicist. Her academic home is arguably the nation’s most elite physics department, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In one sense, she is among a dying breed. Prescod-Weinstein is a…
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Phoebe Boswell: The Matter of Memory Africanah.org: Arena for Contemporary African, African-American and Caribbean Art Amsterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands 2015-02-05 Yvette Greslé, Art Historian/Writer Edited by Rob Perrée Phoebe Boswell. ‘The Matter of Memory’, 2013-14. Installation view at Carroll/Fletcher [detail]. Courtesy the artist and Carroll/Fletcher. I settle into an armchair and am surprised by…
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“Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience” is a collection of essays by mixed race philosophers about the mixed race experience. Each essay is meant to represent one of three possible things: (1) what the philosopher sees as the philosopher’s best work, (2) evidence of the possible impact of the philosopher’s mixed race experience on the…
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A Mixed Race Feminist Blog Interview with Isabel Adonis A Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-01-15 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom About Isabel Adonis I’m a private tutor, artist and writer and I live in Wales. My mother was a white Welsh woman and my father was a black man from Georgetown in Guyana. He…