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: December 17, 2012
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Although mixed marriages, and mixed racial identities, are also rising rapidly in the United States, they are still infrequent by British standards: around 10% of African Americans are in mixed marriages, compared to “over 25%” for black Caribbean Britons and “over 40%” for British born black Caribbeans. Traditionally, American racial identity has been defined by…
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Leading academics say there are some signs that Britain is the real melting pot these days, with people from ethnic minorities far more likely to marry someone from the white majority than in the US, and Britons far more comfortable calling themselves mixed-race than they would be in the United States. Rachael Jolley, “The melting…
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Staged Bodies: Passing, Performance, and Masquerade in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 37, Number 4, Winter 2012 pages 69-91 DOI: 10.1353/mel.2012.0062 Margaret Toth, Assistant Professor of English Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York Henry Louis Gates, Jr., claims that “one of the ironies” of the New…