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: July 2013
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New class: The Multiracial Experience The Portland State Vanguard Portland, Oregon 2013-01-16 Gwen Shaw The eye of the storm. That’s what Black Studies professor Ethan Johnson calls the Northwest, when it comes to multiracialism. “The Northwest has some of the highest rates, within the black community in particular, of marrying outside of their race—in the…
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Anglo-Indians: Is their culture dying out? BBC News Magazine 2013-01-03 Kris Griffiths A product of the British Empire, with a mixture of Western and Indian names, customs and complexions, 2,000 Anglo-Indians are to attend a reunion in Calcutta. But their communities in both the UK and the subcontinent are disappearing, writes Anglo-Indian Kris Griffiths. Southall…
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Census report shows multiracial and minority population growing fastest PoliticsNation with Rev. Al Sharpton NBC News 2013-06-13 Morgan Whitaker, Producer As white birth rates declined, Asian-American and Hispanic populations grew significantly, but the latest Census Report shows that multiracial populations grew fastest. America’s young children are more racially diverse than ever before, according to a…
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TO: Honorable Paul B. Johnson, Governor; Honorable Carroll Gartin, Lieutenant Governor FROM: Director, Sovereignty Commission SUBJECT: Louvenia Knight (Williamson) and her two sons, Edgar Williamson, born May 1, 1954, and Randy Williamson, born October 10, 1955
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Label me American The Massachusetts Daily Collegian University of Massachusetts 2008-03-24 John Gruenenfelder I come to you today as the son of a mixed race couple, of a white father and a Hispanic mother. And yet, I feel allegiance to neither. I look at my father and say, yes, he is white. And I look upon…
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Mississippi rebel’s descendants seek family facts The Jackson Sun 2013-07-04 Laura Tillman, Associated Press SOSO, MISS. — One hundred and fifty years have passed since the Civil War, but in Mississippi, the descendants of a legendary rebel are still separating the facts of his life from fiction. Newton Knight, a white farmer from central Mississippi’s…