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: October 24, 2013
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In ‘The duty to miscegenate’, I harness John Stuart Mill’s 19th century theory of social freedom to explain and to dismantle contemporary racialised and gendered injustice. In the first chapter—Social stigmatisation: ‘a social tyranny’—I argue that persons racialised-and-gendered-as-black-women were, in the past, unjustly stigmatised by legal penalties against ‘miscegenation’ and are still, today, unjustly stigmatised…
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Mixed messages The Queen’s Journal Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada Volume 141, Issue 16, 2013-10-22 Olivia Bowden, Assistant News Editor Many mixed race people, myself included, have trouble defining our ethnic identity. As a child, I’d put on my mother’s makeup and be confused as to why her dark brown foundation didn’t blend with…
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“A Future Unwritten”: Blackness between the Religious Invocations of Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith South Atlantic Quarterly Volume 112, Number 4 (2013) pages 657-674 DOI: 10.1215/00382876-2345225 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Race and religion were two aspects of the Western colonial project. Novelists Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith reflect two related…
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The Fluidity Neither/Both: my mixed-race experience 2013-10-19 Lola Osunkoya I went to the skating rink on a night I don’t usually go, and found myself to be the only female of color there. It was unusual to me because on my regularly night, it’s a predominantly Black crowd. In this stage of my identity development,…