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: March 2014
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White Lies The New York Times Sunday Book Review 2014-02-27 Porochista Khakpour ‘Boy, Snow, Bird,’ by Helen Oyeyemi Strange times, crowed too many wise and unwise men over the millenniums. But as the art critic Jerry Saltz wrote in New York magazine last fall, maybe we’re finally at a point where the strangeness of the…
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Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel Riverhead Press (an imprint of Penguin Press) 2014-03-06 320 pages 5.74 x 8.58in Hardcover ISBN: 9781594631399 Helen Oyeyemi From the prizewinning author of Mr. Fox, the Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives…
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Black history month is a token tribute, but Afro-Latinos don’t even have that The Guardian 2014-02-26 Icess Fernandez Rojas The US has a designated celebration for about every group, but if you’re of mixed heritage, you’re on your own I cringe every time February rolls around. For me, black history month has become predictable. First,…
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Afro Latinos’ Mixed Identity Can Leave Them Out of the Mix NBC News 2014-02-27 Patricia Guadalupe and Suzanne Gamboa Afro Latino Marco Davis laughed when he recalled the lengths he went to keep in touch with black and Latino alumni groups when he graduated from Yale University. “One year I would put down that I…
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A Roanoke Island Colony Remembered Chowan Discovery Group 2014-02-25 Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director The Winton Triangle has ties to the subject of the latest Chowan Discovery-nominated marker, that of the Roanoke Island Freedmen’s Colony. During the Civil War when the colony existed, several Winton Triangle men enlisted in the United States Colored Troops in…