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: February 2015
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Controversial ruling in Spence unlikely to apply to many other estates cases AdvocateDaily.com: Canada’s Legal News 2015-02-24 Lisa Laredo The court decision in Spence v. BMO Trust Company, 2015 ONSC 615 (CanLII) has led to concerns about court interference and uncertainty in estate planning. An Ontario court judge held a will to be invalid due…
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In France, a Baby Switch and a Test of a Mother’s Love The New York Times 2015-02-24 Maïa de la Baume GRASSE, France — When Sophie Serrano finally held her daughter, Manon, in her arms after the newborn, suffering from jaundice, had been placed under artificial light, she was taken aback by the baby’s thick…
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Box Marked Black + Futility of Nicknames Stage and Studio with Dmae Roberts: The Best of Performing, Literary and Media Arts KBOO 90.7 FM or KBOO.FM Portland, Oregon 2015-02-24, 11:00-12:00 PST (Local Time) Dmae Roberts, Host Dmae spotlights two different writers: Damaris Webb who’s performing her autobiographical play The Box Marked Black about growing up…
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“I am your problem, Dad. You are the white father of a black daughter. You are accountable to a life that is squarely outside of the jurisdiction of the whiteness that swaddles you. I should be the problem that won’t let you come home white and blissfully unaware, but somehow this is not the case.…
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Building a Face, and a Case, on DNA The New York Times 2015-02-23 Andrew Pollack The police in Columbia, S.C., released this sketch of a possible suspect based on DNA left at the crime scene. Parabon NanoLabs, which made the image, has begun offering DNA phenotyping services to law enforcement agencies. There were no known…
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Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology University of Minnesota Press February 2015 240 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-8730-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-8726-8 Michelle M. Wright, Associate Professor of Black European and African Diaspora Studies Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois What does it mean to be Black? If Blackness is not biological…
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The Kidnapping of Mollie Digby: Was the Fair-Haired Stranger Actually Mollie? All Things Crime 2015-02-20 Darcia Helle In 1870, New Orleans was a city divided by politics, class, and race. The Civil War had left much of the south reeling, and now the government’s Radical Reconstruction attempted to force change by integrating the black population…