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: April 2014
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The Future of Multiracial Identity with Sylvia Targ (Palo Alto High School ’16) TEDxYouth 2014-04-19 Sylvia Targ (Palo Alto High School ’16) discusses biracial identity and revolutionary ideas regarding how we view ourselves and others. Sylvia is an avid intern at Stanford Behavioral Sciences & Psychology. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is…
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Things That Must Not Be Forgotten is a beautifully written collection of Michael David Kwan’s childhood experiences in China during the 1930s and 1940s. Born into privilege, David saw his pampered life disintegrate as the Japanese overran China. His father, the wealthy administrator for China’s railroads, took a position in the pro-Japanese government to work…
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Complicating Race or Reproducing Whiteness? Heidi Durrow and The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Gino Michael Pellegrini: Education, Race, Multiraciality, Class & Solidarity 2014-04-13 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California [This is an excerpt from a paper (currently being revised) that I presented last month at the…
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Pilot Episode The Source Weekly Bend, Oregon 2014-03-20 Brianna Brey Jason Graham (The Source Weekly) The Lot’s new open mic calls on Bend’s creative types “Calling ALL local musicians, artist and hacks,” reads the event listing for Bend’s newest open mic night, an free-for-all gathering on Wednesday nights at The Lot. “Sing a tune, read…
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Immigrants Stir New Life Into São Paulo’s Gritty Old Center The New York Times 2014-04-14 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief SÃO PAULO, Brazil — For obvious reasons, many Paulistanos still consider this megacity’s decrepit old center a no-go zone. Carjacking and kidnapping gangs prey on motorists at stoplights. Squatters control dozens of graffiti-splattered apartment buildings.…
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Will Today’s Hispanics Be Tomorrow’s Whites? Slate 2014-04-15 Jamelle Bouie, staff writer covering politics, policy, and race How Hispanics perceive themselves may shape the future of race in America. The Trayvon Martin shooting was hardly in the national consciousness before fault lines emerged around the case. Was Martin as innocent as he seemed? Did Zimmerman…
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This dissertation explores how anti‐racist education might be improved, so that it more effectively teaches Multiracial students about racism.