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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First Baptist unveils historic marker The Tennesseean Nashville, Tennessee 2015-12-09 Jennifer Easton If people of faith go to First Baptist Church on East Winchester Street looking for a sign, they’ll find it. Sumner County’s oldest known African-American church celebrated another milestone Dec. 6 with the dedication of a historic marker commemorating the 150-year-old church’s early…
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Third film festival La Voz News: The voice of De Anza College since 1967 Cupertino, California 2015-10-22 Bojana Cvijic, Staff Writer De Anza students saw the Lacey Schwartz’s film “Little White Lie” and had a discussion about race and identity issues during the Third Film Festival on Oct. 15 at Euphrat Museum. Members of the…
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Meet April Baskin, the Multiracial Face of Reform Judaism Forward 2015-11-28 Allison Kaplan Sommer (Haaretz) Image: Haaretz See also: “Black and Jewish: New Reform Leader Works to Bring Marginalized Groups Into the Tribe” on 2015-11-25 from Haaretz. To meet April Baskin is to see the change in American Jewry personified. A tall, confident, 32-year-old with an impressive…
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Raising my biracial Jewish child Ethical Jam The Times of Israel Jerusalem, Israel 2015-11-12 Ethical Jam presents contemporary ethical dilemmas and the responses of Jewish thinkers from across the world Jewish community. Ethical Jam is a project of the Center for Global Judaism (CGJ) at Hebrew College in Newton Centre, Massachusetts and of the Times…
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European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe University of Minnesota Press 2011 304 pages 6 b&w photos 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8166-7016-1 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-7015-4 Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor of African-American Literature and Culture University of California, San Diego European Others offers an interrogation into the position of racialized communities in the European…
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Cachita’s Streets: The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba Duke University Press 2015 376 pages 27 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5918-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5937-1 Jalane D. Schmidt, Associate Professor of Religious Studies University of Virginia Cuba’s patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban…
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What defines our identity, our family of origin or the family that raises us? How do we come to terms with the sins and mistakes of our parents? Lacey discovers that answering those questions means understanding her parents’ own stories as well as her own. She pieces together her family history and the story of…
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Mixed, Passing For White Youth Radio 2015-10-12 Maya Cueva What’s it like to be a mixed race person who passes as white? Complicated, according to Youth Radio’s Maya Cueva. She often finds herself struggling to represent the part of her racial identity that people can’t see. My whole life, I’ve always been the girl who’s…