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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Category: Religion
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Jews of Color National Convening Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) 130 West 30th Street New York, New York 10001 2016-05-01 Through 2016-05-03 Recent events have moved the struggle for racial justice and inclusion in America to the forefront of public consciousness. Jews of Color occupy a unique space within that struggle, living at the intersection…
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Mizrahi Jews, Jews of Color, and Racial Justice Jewschool: Progressive Jews & Views 2016-04-28 Keren Soffer Sharon Queens, New York As a Mizrahi Jew organizing for justice in my city, I initially questioned whether I had a role to play in the upcoming National Jews of Color Convening. Even though I co-founded the Mizrahi Caucus…
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I’m the new NUS president – and no, I’m not an antisemitic Isis sympathiser The Guardian 2016-04-24 Malia Bouattia ‘Some may not agree with my politics and ideologies, but I do believe the student movement has a shared goal.’ Photograph: Vicky Design/NUS website The accusations being directed at me this week are deeply troubling and…
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Malia Bouattia’s election as NUS president proves deeply divisive The Guardian 2016-04-22 Jessica Elgot At the NUS conference, Bouattia won on the first round. Photograph: NUS/PA Jewish student groups alarmed by her election, but the first black Muslim woman in the role has nerves of steel, and young activists love her for that It is…
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Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians University of North Carolina Press September 2015 270 pages 8 halftones, 1 map, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2443-3 Angela Pulley Hudson, Associate Professor of History Texas A&M University In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed…
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Synagogues Need to Welcome and Celebrate Jewish Diversity Tablet 2016-03-31 MaNishtana MaNishtana is the psuedonym of Shais Rishon, an Orthodox African-American Jewish blogger, editor-at-large at JN Magazine, and author of Thoughts From A Unicorn and Fine, thanks. How are YOU, Jewish? Follow him on Twitter @MaNishtana. Thoughts on the importance of the updated list of…
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Jackie Kay the new Scots Makar, Shaping the Body Woman’s Hour BBC Radio 4 2016-03-25 The acclaimed writer Jackie Kay has just been announced as the next Scots Makar – Scotland’s national poet. She tells Jenni about the plans she has for her new role. Today a new exhibition examining how food, fashion and lifestyle…
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Fr. Virgilio Elizondo Takes His Own Life The Rivard Report: Urban. Independent. All About San Antonio. San Antonio, Texas 2016-03-14 Robert Rivard, Director Fr. Virgilio Elizondo, one of San Antonio’s most accomplished and beloved Catholic priests whose work brought him recognition in Latin America and Europe and an esteemed faculty position at the University of…