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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DNA survey finds all humans are 99.9pc the same The Telegraph 2002-12-20 Roger Highfield, Science Editor Whether you hail from Surbiton, Ulan Bator or Nairobi, your genetic make-up is strikingly similar to that of every other person on Earth, an analysis concludes today. Although scientists have long recognised that, despite physical differences, all human populations…
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“The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South” demonstrates that the emergent twenty-first-century recognition of race mixing and the relative advantages of light-skinned, mixed-race people represent a re-emergence of one salient feature of race in America that dates to its founding.
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Racial Prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life Ashgate September 2014 148 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4094-4498-5 eBook PDF ISBN: 978-1-4094-4499-2 eBook ePUB ISBN: 978-1-4724-0107-6 Jonathan Xavier Inda, Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign In the contemporary United States, matters of life and health have become key political…
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Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse by Kimberly Snyder Manganelli (review) Callaloo Volume 38, Number 2, Spring 2015 pages 405-408 Justin Rogers-Cooper, Associate Professor of English LaGuardia Community College/City University of New York, Long Island City, New York Manganellia, Kimberly S., Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the…
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The Nine Lives Of Dianne White St. Louis Magazine August 2005 Nancy Larson Photograph by Katherine Bish “‘Old what’s-her-face–is she still alive?’ About half of you folks thought I was pushing daisies. Well, surprise, surprise–I’m still here.” That’s the way Dianne White Clatto imagines that fans from her Channel 5 days think about her–if they…
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Dianne White Clatto, Weathercaster Who Broke a Color Barrier, Dies at 76 The New York Times 2015-05-07 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent (@samrob12) Dianne White Clatto, in 1967, giving the weather report on KSD-TV. Credit St. Louis Post-Dispatch Twelve years before Al Roker started as a weather anchor for a CBS affiliate in Syracuse, Dianne…
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When I was four years old, I came home from preschool and said to my mother, “they think I’m one of the white kids.” To their credit, I have always looked like one of the white kids. Unfortunately for those not interested in giving evidence to the proverb about books and their covers, my appearance…
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An Overlooked Classic About the Comedy of Race The New Yorker 2015-05-07 Danzy Senna Illustration by Roman Muradov The first time I read Fran Ross’s hilarious, badass novel, “Oreo,” I was living on Fort Greene Place, in Brooklyn, in a community of people I thought of as “the dreadlocked élite.” It was the late nineteen-nineties,…