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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Month: September 2012
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Job Openings at Lehman College, Bronx, NY (City University of New York) Job Title Department Application Deadline Position Start Date Assistant Professor – African & African American Studies African & African American Studies Open until filled with review of CVs to begin on October 1, 2012. Fall 2013 Associate Professor – African & African American…
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The recent discovery of Richard Greener’s papers could fill some of the gaps in his biography.
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‘Brown babies’ long search for family, identity Indianapolis Recorder 2011-11-23 Stephanie Siek (CNN) — Daniel Cardwell’s obsession consumed three decades of his life and $250,000 of his money, he estimates. His energy has been devoted to answering one basic question: “Who am I?” Cardwell was a “brown baby”—one of thousands of children born to African-American…
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A Lesson from Philadelphia’s Little Film Festival that Could Colorlines: News for Action 2012-08-10 Akiba Solomon, Columnist, Gender Matters For a four-day event that began as a small assortment of screenings, there were plenty of major moments at Philadelphia’s inaugural BlackStar Film Festival last week. Curated in less than a year by producer and filmmaker…
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If personalized medicine is to bear out its name and become truly “personalized,” then a focus on racial differences at the level of the genome constitutes a step off the path with many ramifications, including the possibility of racial and ethnic stereotyping and discrimination during routine medical care that could lead to misdiagnoses and ineffective…
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Making The Application Valley Spirit Franklin County, Virginia 1867-10-02 page 1, column 8 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library Relates a ficticious story about a conversation between two white men, one Republican the other Democrat, in which the consequences of black suffrage are discussed. Several days ago a…
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Well, I’ve always joked that it was channeled to me. [Be]cause it was very easy. But it was after talking, just talking with people. That’s what people told me. So I wrote it down. You know, I organized, wrote it down. It was really given to me by the people. And that’s why I’ve always…
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When Family Trees Are Gnarled by Race The New York Times 2012-09-08 Brent Staples My paternal grandfather, Marshall Staples (1898-1969), was one of the millions of black Southerners who moved north in the Great Migration. Those of us in the family who were born Yankees in the years just after World War II were given…