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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Day: August 16, 2010
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Claiming a Biracial Identity: Resisting Social Constructions of Race and Culture Journal of Counseling & Development Volume 77, Number 1 (Winter 1999) pages 32-35 ISSN-0748-9633 Carmen Braun Williams, Assistant Vice President for Diversity University of Colorado System In a world where socially constructed categories of race are misconstrued as biological, the author, a light-skinned “Black,”…