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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- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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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Still Jewish: A History of Women and Intermarriage in America New York University Press February 2009 325 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780814757307 Paper ISBN: 9780814764343 Keren R. McGinity, Author-Educator Love & Tradition: intermarriage insights for a Jewish future Over the last century, American Jews married outside their religion at increasing rates. By closely examining the intersection…
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Geraldo Rivera: On Being Jew-Rican, A Rare Mixed Breed Fox News Latino 2014-05-16 Geraldo Rivero, Senior Correspondent Fox News (From my speech May 14, 2014 at The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Women’s Philanthropy luncheon) I’d like to talk about being Jewish in a Puerto Rican family by telling you the story of my…
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Mixed Feelings North by Northwestern Northwestern University’s leading independent online publication Evanston, Illinois 2014-05-22 Sarah Turbin, Class 0f 2016 Medill School of Journalism There’s no question quite like it. “What are you?” has trailed behind me my whole life, tapping me on the shoulder with a different lilt to its tone each time: curious, doubtful,…
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Imitation of Life, one of the classic narratives of racial passing, originated as a 1933 novel by Jewish writer Fannie Hurst, but it is perhaps best known as the 1959 melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk inducing finale of the Sirk film, the prodigal black daughter, who has crossed the color line and passed for white, returns home…
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Black & Jewish in New Orleans BrassyBrown.com: where women of color are first in line 2014-04-01 Marian Moore, Guest Blogger December of 2013 found me in San Diego, California this year, attending the fiftieth Biennial of the Women of Reform Judaism. Although, this was the organization’s centennial, WRJ actually began at my synagogue in 1900 as…
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Before Green and Bouchet, another African American Yale College grad. Maybe. Yale Alumni Magazine 2014-03-07 Mark Alden Branch ’86 Just last Friday, we told you that the first African American to graduate from Yale College was not Edward Bouchet in 1874, but Richard Henry Green in 1857. Since then, though, we’ve been reminded of two…
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New Contenders Emerge in Quest to Identify Yale’s First African-American Graduate The New York Times 2014-03-16 Ariel Kaminer For Richard Henry Green, recently declared to have been Yale College’s first known African-American graduate, fame, or at least the certainty of his claim on history, was fleeting. Just last month, an Americana specialist at the Swann…
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New Rabbi at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue ‘a Pioneer’ The Wall Street Journal 2014-01-17 Sophia Hollander Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl Is Daughter of a Korean Buddhist Immigrant and an American Jew Growing up as the daughter of a Korean Buddhist immigrant and an American Jew in Tacoma, Wash., Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl said some family members…
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The Mixed Marriage The New York Times 2014-01-11 Interview by Lise Funderburg Lise Funderburg, a journalist, interviewed Yael Ben-Zion, a photographer raised in Israel, about her new book, “Intermarried,” published by Kehrer, which features families from the Washington Heights neighborhood where she lives with her French husband and 5-year-old twins. Q. What inspired this project?…