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 2013
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Let’s Learn From the Past: Cumberland Posey Jr. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2013-08-29 Michele Sneddon, History Center Communications Assistant As a standout player, manager and owner, Cumberland Willis Posey Jr. built the Homestead Grays into one of the most successful franchises in Negro League baseball history. Born on June 20, 1890, Posey grew up in a…
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Being Mixed Race: Am I A Human Rorschach Test? Media Diversity UK: Tackling the lack of diversity in UK media and the ubiquity of whiteness 2013-09-03 Glen Chisholm Just last week I was standing at a bus stop when a gentleman; a complete stranger came and joined me. Nothing unusual about that, we then politely…
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Dublin has problems. But I am proud to be part of a growing Irish mixed-race grouping, and to be able to see mixed-race people representing Ireland on the world stage whether it’s the new Rose of Tralee Clare Kambamettu, actresses Ruth Negga and Samantha Mumba, TV presenters Baz Ashmawy and Seán Musanje, or sportsmen such…
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Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands [DeLeón Review] Journal of American History Volume 99, Issue 4 (March 2013) page 1284 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jas678 Arnoldo DeLeón, Professor of History Angelo State University, San Angelo Texas Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. By Grace…
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Hapa-Palooza: A Celebration of Mixed Roots, Arts and Ideas Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2013-09-18, 2013-09-19, and 2013-09-21 Hapa-Palooza: A Vancouver Celebration of Mixed-Roots Arts and Ideas is a new cultural festival that celebrates the city’s identity as a place of hybridity, synergy and acceptance. A vibrant fusion of music, dance, literary, artistic and film performances,…
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Return to the rainforest: A son’s search for his Amazonian mother BBC News Magazine 2013-08-28 William Kremer BBC World Service David Good’s parents come from different countries – hardly unusual in the US where he was raised. But the 25-year-old’s family is far from ordinary – while his father is American, his mother is a…