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: October 3, 2013
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A hysterically funny debut novel about discovering where you come from—even if you have to lie to get there.
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New mixed-race student group holds first meeting North by Northwestern 2013-10-01 Julia Clark-Riddell North by Northwestern is Northwestern University’s leading independent online publication, updated around the clock with stories about campus and culture. Wildcat Connection lists exactly 100 student groups in the “cultural” category, from the African Students Association to the Women in Leadership program,…
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Descendants of Norwich slave, owner meet Norwich Bulletin Norwich, Connecticut 2012-03-29 Adam Benson Norwich, Conn.—When descendants of Norwich slave Guy Drock and the man who owned him met for the first time Thursday, they weren’t sure what would happen. Grant Hayter-Menzies’ fifth-generation great-grandfather, Capt. Benejah Bushnell, owned Drock for a decade in the mid-1700s in…
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[Kip] Fulbeck’s book accomplishes its goal of bringing awareness about Hapas to themselves and to the larger society. It creates a recognizable space for a particular group of mixed-race people that asserts itself against the traditional racial paradigm dominated by a logic of monoraciality, expands race beyond a black/white racial line, and sutures personal narrative…
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“Slavery, Freedom and Reunion in a Colonial Connecticut Town” with Grant Hayter-Menzies, Daryl D’Angelo and Donald Roddy Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2013-10-03, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2013-10-04, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host In June 1759, Norwich, Connecticut businessman Benajah Bushnell sold Guy Drock, a slave of African ancestry, to Sarah Powers,…
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Owning white privilege and then what? Transracial Parenting: A Race Together 2013-04-09 Rachel Dangermond My own brand of narrow vision at work here: I’m not a big coffee shop person; I go rarely and usually when I have a deadline that I have put off until I can’t bear it anymore and I need a…