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: November 2014
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The number of multiracial individuals in America, many of whom define their racial identity in different ways, has grown dramatically in recent years and continues to increase. From this demographic shift a movement seeking unique racial status for multiracial individuals has emerged. The multiracial movement is distinguishable from other race-based movements in that it is…
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Monday Murder Mystery: Everything I Never Told You Daily Kos 2014-11-24 Susan Grisby Everything I Never Told You: A Novel by Celeste Ng; Published by Penguin Press; June 26th 2014. 297 pages Families are probably the most mysterious strangers we will ever know. Sure, we know their names and that one is a brother or…
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Could you imagine living your entire life not knowing your true ethnic background? Movie director Lacey Schwartz can. Watch her talk about her new film “Little White Lie” and more:
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Mixed-Race Identity, Ferguson & Why it Matters to Us Mixed In Canada 2014-11-25 Rema Tavares By now you probably already know that Darren Wilson wasn’t indicted yesterday, November 24th, 2014 for murdering unarmed Black youth Mike Brown on August 9th, 2014. Ever since that day, folks around the world have been showing their support, as…
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In Response to #Ferguson One Drop of Love 2014-11-25 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni I spent yesterday, like so many of my friends and family, wavering between deep sadness and deep anger. I understand that, because I was a witness to a family member being brutalized by a police officer, I have a different perspective than those…
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“We’ve sexualised or pornographied mixed race. It’s a very narrow line between exoticisation and sexualisation, fetishisms—where you turn all non-white people into people who exist simply into your own pleasure. She said that “a person who is half white is more “palatable” and acceptable in society – an idea, she believed, is steeped in racism…
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Bill: New Yorkers could identify as multiracial The Associated Press 2014-11-25 Jonathan Lemire, City Hall and Political Reporter NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers may soon be able to identify themselves as more than one race under legislation introduced in the City Council on Tuesday. The measure would change dozens of official documents, including applications…
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“Most other mixed and biracial people I know have at least one secret or lie in their family, have at least one person who is choosing to pass or is passing and doesn’t even know it. That theme is so common. I have a half sister who didn’t know she was half black until she…
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Proposal for NYC Forms: Option to Identify as Multiracial The Wall Street Journal 2014-11-24 Mara Gay, City Hall Reporter Legislation Being Introduced in City Council on Tuesday New Yorkers would be able to identify as more than one race on city documents under legislation set to be introduced in the City Council on Tuesday. “We…
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Allyson Hobbs (Book) A Chosen Exile Joe Madison The Black Eagle SiriusXM Urban ViewAfrican-American Talk 2014-11-13 Joe Madison, Host Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University