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 Hafu Nation: Five Voices Tokyo Weekender: Japan’s Premier English Magazine 2015-05-03 Kyle Mullin Velina Hasu Houston (Photo by Ken Matsui) Four members of the “Hafu Nation” share their experiences of living life from (at least) two perspectives. Ariana Miyamoto has proven that beauty is not merely skin deep. Although some of her detractors criticized…
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Welcome to Seattle Public Schools. What race are you? The Seattle Globalist Seattle, Washington 2015-05-05 Sharon H. Chang “Welcome to Seattle Public Schools!” it reads happily. I’m cheerfully advised to use a checklist following to help me enroll my child in kindergarten. Okay, I think. No problem. My eyes scroll down the checklist: Admission Form,…
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Dr. Bonnie Duran on Race, Racism, & the Dharma The Whole U The University of Washington 2015-04-30 Bonnie Duran, Associate Professor of Social Work The Dharma is the most important source of insight and inspiration to me as I heal from racism and discrimination and as I work towards social justice. The Dharma has taught…
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From Chains to Chiles: An Elite Afro-Indigenous Couple in Colonial Mexico, 1641–1688 Ethnohistory Volume 62, Number 2, April 2015 pages 361-384 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-2854356 Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva, Assistant Professor of History University of Rochester This article explores the life of an elite Afro-indigenous couple in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles during the seventeenth…
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Ancient DNA Tells a New Human Story The Wall Street Journal 2015-05-01 Matt Ridley Armed with old bones and new DNA sequencing technology, scientists are getting a much better understanding of the prehistory of the human species, writes Matt Ridley Imagine what it must have been like to look through the first telescopes or the…