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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Month: January 2014
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An eclectic heritage, a penchant for hip-hop, and life as an artist in New York City set Tim Okamura (MFA 1993 Illustration as Visual Essay) on a path toward social consciousness. Collected by celebrity clients (including Uma Thurman, Questlove and John Mellencamp) and exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in London, his portraits are meant…
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The story behind Dido Belle – the bi-racial Londoner who helped end slavery in Britain London Evening Standard 2014-01-08 Susannah Butter Susannah Butter tells the tale of Dido Belle, ahead of the release of a film about her extraordinary life starring Tom Felton and Miranda Richardson. Among the many aristocratic faces gazing out of frames…
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Jackie Kay on reading out an anti-racist poem at a football ground The Guardian 2012-10-26 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University Jackie Kay readies for an experiment – being a poet on Sheffield United’s pitch and helping to kick racism out of football On Monday I’m going to be pitching my anti-racist poem…
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The New York Times and NPR Are Still Clueless About Latinos Alisa Valdes: Official Website for Writer and Producer Alisa Valdes 2014-01-03 Alisa Valdes More than a decade ago, when I worked as a staff writer for two of the nation’s top newspapers (The Boston Globe and the LA Times), I was often disappointed to…
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Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the Colonial Period to 1810 Genealogical Publishing Company 2000 392 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780806350424 Paul Heinegg As he did for Free Blacks in North Carolina and Virginia, Paul Heinegg has reconstructed the history of the free African American communities of Maryland and Delaware by looking at the…
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Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the Colonial Period to About 1820 (Fifth Edition) Genealogical Publishing Company 2005 2 volumes; 1355 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780806352800 Paul Heinegg The third edition of Paul Heinegg’s Free African Americans of North Carolina and Virginia was awarded the American Society of Genealogists’ prestigious Donald…
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Surprises in the Family Tree The New York Times 2004-01-08 Mitchell Owens John Archer first appears in Northampton County, Va., in the mid-17th century. He started a family that prospered, fought in the Revolutionary War and built a mansion. Generations later, Archer’s blood trickled down to me. It mingled in my veins with DNA from…