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: December 2014
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I Am a Blacktina: Reflections on Being an Afro-Cuban in the U.S. For Harriet 2014-12-28 Felice León I am a Blacktina. Get it: Black [La]tina? A friend gave me this nickname years ago, and it has stuck. My father is Afro-Cuban, and my mother Afro-American. I identify with both cultures and have tried to balance…
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Museum Offers Interactive Oral History of Mixed Race Brooklynites NY1 News New York, New York 2014-12-29 Jeanine Ramirez, Brooklyn Reporter A new interactive website offers an interracial, multi-ethnic view of Brookynites. NY1’s Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report. Deborah Schwartz clicks on the latest resource at the Brooklyn Historical Society, an oral history project about…
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In conservative, dignified Pasadena, Calif.,—a city whose traditional reserve is normally broken only once annually by the famed New Year’s Day “Tournament Of Roses”—a tawny-complexioned mother of two broke the tranquility ahead of schedule.
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“Love Letter to My Ancestors:” Representing Traumatic Memory in Jackie Kay’s The Lamplighter Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies Volume 36, Number 2 (December 2014) pages 161-182 Petra Tournay-Theodotou, Associate Professor of English European University Cyprus, Engomi, Nicosia-Cyprus Jackie Kay’s The Lamplighter, published in 2008, was first broadcast on BBC radio in…
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‘Everything I Never Told You’ by Celeste Ng: Unspoken Thoughts About Being Mixed-Race Hapa Mama: Asian Fusion Family and Food 2014-12-28 Grace Hwang Lynch Celeste Ng’s debut novel Everything I Never Told You: A Novel has been at the top of many best books of 2014 lists — and for good reason. It’s a quick…
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A Mestiza in the Borderlands: Margarita Cota-Cárdenas Puppet Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies Volume 34, Number 1 (June 2012) pages 47-62 Ana María Manzanas Calvo Department of American Literature and Culture Universidad de Salamanca, Spain The article explores the formal and conceptual complexities of a novella that has so far escaped…
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Why mixed-race comic was ‘born a crime’ Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-12-04 Jessica Ellis Teo Kermeliotis London (CNN) — When it comes to getting ready for a show, fast-rising South African comedian Trevor Noah has it all figured out. “My ideal setting is I walk from the streets, backstage and straight onto the stage,” says…
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Woman turned away from 1958 Rose Parade because of race to ride in 2015 parade Eyewitness News, KABC 7 Los Angeles, California 2014-12-27 Leanne Suter, Reporter PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) — A woman who was denied the honor of riding in the Rose Parade in 1958 because of her race will finally get her chance in…
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Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell (Born 1921): Teaching America that black was beautiful. The Lives They Lived The New York Times Magazine 2014-12-25 Touré DeVore-Mitchell during her modeling days. Photograph by Rupert Callender from the DeVore family archive One day in 1946, a black woman showed up at the Vogue School of Modeling in New York, seeking to…