Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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: June 18, 2013
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Of Racism and Remembrance Common-Place A Common Place, an Uncommon Voice Volume 1, Number 4, July 2001 Aaron Garrett, Associate Professor of Philosophy Boston University Is interest in the racism of past and hallowed philosophers and statesmen the obsession of a politically correct society gone amok? Or is it an acknowledgement of the ways in…
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The term ‘black Welsh’ remains for me a white person’s concept used to deny me my own experience of racial oppression (the Welsh themselves, are an oppressed and colonised people). ‘Black Welsh’ is not an identity; on the contrary, it is a duality and a contradiction. Perhaps this explains to some extent the high incidence…
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There is No There There: Women and Intermarriage in the Southwestern Borderlands Common-Place A Common Place, An Uncommon Voice Volume 13, Number 3, Spring 2013 Amanda Taylor-Montoya Amanda Taylor-Montoya is an independent scholar living in southern New Mexico. Borderlands are fuzzy, slippery, ambiguous places. Whether imagined as a geographic region straddling an international border, “the…
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She was a black woman, and she flouted convention. In an age that put ladies in the parlor and preferred them to be seen and not heard, she was nursing the British wounded, not in hospital wards with Florence Nightingale but on the Crimean battlefields—and off them, she was running a restaurant and hotel. She…