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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Woman turned away from 1958 Rose Parade because of race to ride in 2015 parade Eyewitness News, KABC 7 Los Angeles, California 2014-12-27 Leanne Suter, Reporter PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) — A woman who was denied the honor of riding in the Rose Parade in 1958 because of her race will finally get her chance in…
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WATCH: Jesse Williams of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ on Race Heavy 2014-12-22 Paul Farrell, Breaking News Editor Actor Jesse Williams appears in a viral video that was published on December 17. The Grey’s Anatomy star take aim at racism and double standards in America, including public housing discrimination, specifically in Chicago. The star goes on to discuss…
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Impolite Conversations is a fascinating collection of essay that captures a set of exchanges between journalist Cora Daniels and cultural anthropologist John L. Jackson, Jr.
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Female Slaves and the Law C-SPAN: Created by Cable Lectures in History 2014-10-21 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan Professor Martha Jones talked about the mid-19th century court case of Celia, a female slave who killed her master after repeated sexual assaults. Topics…
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In 1963, James Baldwin wrote two essays that examined the role of race and racism in the history of America. Published in The New Yorker, Baldwin’s first essay, written in the form of a letter to his fourteen-year-old nephew on the 100th anniversary of Emancipation explained “the crux of [his] dispute with [his] country”…
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Bill De Blasio Responds To Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision The Huffington Post 2014-12-03 Sam Levine, Associate Politics Editor New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) said Wednesday that a grand jury’s decision not to indict a police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner was a decision “that many in our city…
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Latino Life: Are We Tolerant Of Our Own Hispanic Diversity? NBC News 2014-08-02 Raul A. Reyes Being Latino means being part of a rich, diverse culture. Or does it? Some Latinos feel removed from their peers because of their skin color, language ability, or mixed-race heritage. Others have faced criticism for holding political views at…
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Dorothy Roberts, “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race.” McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, L8S4L9, Canada 2014-10-23 Public Lecture: Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at UPenn, came to McMaster University on October 23, 2014 to give a lecture titled “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race.” In her talk, Roberts…
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Explaining Ferguson to interracial children KSDK TV-5 St. Louis, Missouri 2014-11-27 Christina Coleman, Anchor-Reporter Family Counselor Michael Herold strongly recommends having plenty of discussions about the different cultural traditions experiences that make up the child’s racial background on both sides of their family. View the video here.