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: January 27, 2013
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Perhaps you are all familiar with the “one drop” philosophy, adopted by American slave owners. Essentially, as long as an individual had even one drop of African blood, that individual was considered Black, regardless of what could sometimes be a very mixed lineage. Well, the “one drop” concept is, in some ways, alive and well…
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At last we breathe easier. The fiat has gone forth that in Georgia crime shall not go unwhipt of justice, nor shall moral rottenness reek in our midst. Our State will not be a doggery for the depraved, the corrupt, and the vicious of other States. In our midst miscegenation, even when sanctioned by the unholy…
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The antiblack racism in the multiracial movement from the 1990s did not fit with my multiracial college activism, and yet it stuck with me. It unsettled me to understand how politicians and the media manipulated multiracialism into an alignment of “my people” with the politics of the Far Right.
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Dance explores diversity in ‘Exodus Project II’ Jan. 24-25 Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, Tennessee 2013-01-18 Topics ranging from biracial identity to physical disabilities will be explored through movement as MTSU Theatre and Dance presents “The Exodus Project II: Understanding Diversity Through Dance” next week. The performance will run two nights, at 7:30 p.m.…
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6 Hilariously Failed Attempts at Making Comics More Diverse: #3. Connor Hawke, the Mixed Race (and Possibly Gay) Green Arrow Cracked Magazine 2013-01-26 Ed Johnson Since the 1970s, the DC Comics superhero Green Arrow has had sex with pretty much every female he’s been able to impress with arrow-based innuendo. So it wasn’t much of…
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The District Court yesterday was the centre of much excitement, and as usual on such occasions, the negroes were out in full force. It was generally understood that the miscegenationists were to be placed on trial.