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: October 2014
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Hapa changes name to Association of Multiracial People at Tufts to reflect new goals The Tufts Daily Medford, Massachusetts 2014-10-14 Yuki Zaninovich, Contributing Writer For the Association of Multiracial People at Tufts (AMPT), there is a lot in a name. AMPT, formerly known as Tufts Hapa, aims to create a community for students who identify…
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Identity In Pieces: When You Don’t Know Where You Count The Aerogram: A curated take on South Asian art, literature, life and news 2014-10-01 Jaya Saxena Queens, New York Last summer, I wore a pink and yellow sari to my cousin’s wedding. As my Indian family lingered in the hotel lobby, dressed up and waiting…
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When Racism Was a Science The New York Times 2014-10-13 Joshua A. Krisch ‘Haunted Files: The Eugenics Record Office’ Recreates a Dark Time in a Laboratory’s Past An old stucco house stands atop a grassy hill overlooking the Long Island Sound. Less than a mile down the road, the renowned Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory bustles…
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Advances in genealogy and DNA analysis tell surprising and disturbing stories about the heritage we think we know
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SANDS OF TIME: American Beach nears 80-year anniversary The Florida Times-Union Jacksonville, Florida 2014-10-13 Alec Newell The extended family of Zephaniah Kingsley, Anna Jai, and their descendants have been major players in shaping the history of Northeast Florida during three colonial periods, American territorial times, Florida statehood and on into the 20th century. Between Lake…
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Raven-Symoné, Oprah, and What it Means to be (African) American The Huffington Post Black Voices 2014-10-13 A. B. Wilkinson, Assistant Professor of History University of Nevada, Las Vegas Last week entertainer Raven-Symoné appeared on Oprah: Where Are They Now? and proudly stated that she was in “an amazing, happy relationship” with a woman, yet what…
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Down Blige Road: Where There’s No Place Like Home Richmond Hill Reflections Richmond Hill, Georgia Volume 10, Number 4 (September 2014) pages 57-60 Leslie Ann Berg (Photos by Callie Beale Photography) Richmond Hill’s history is engrained deep within the walls of its old buildings, street names, and its land. But there is another place where…