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: March 2015
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The Men Who Left Were White Gawker 2014-04-12 Josie Duffy There are three things you should know. First: I’m not biracial. “What are you?” people ask, and they expect me to say something thrilling and tribal. I answer, but still they press. “Where are your ancestors from?” people ask, and they want answers that aren’t…
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The Next Great Migration The New York Times 2015-03-01 Thomas Chatterton Williams PARIS — AT dinner last summer with my brother-in-law, a grandson of Jews who fled Algeria for France, the conversation turned to the rash of anti-Semitic incidents plaguing the country. At such times, the question inevitably arises in the minds of many Jews:…
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The Right Words to Say: On Being Read as White The Toast 2015-03-05 Dahlia Grossman-Heinz When you meet me for the first time, you read me as if I were a book. Every idea you have about me and every word I say is part of that book. When you look at me, you will…
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Imagining a future where racial reassignment surgery is the norm Quartz 2014-09-27 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Communications Professor University of Southern California, Annenberg Jess Row’s haunting new novel, Your Face In Mine, is an invitation to the future, an era bound only by the limits of imagination, money, and technology. It’s a time when you can…
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I’m mixed with the bravery of a soldier and the passion of activists. I’m mixed with the rage of a victim and the hope of a survivor. I’m mixed with brilliance of a polymath and the swag of a “hood boy.” I’m mixed with the past and present and my future is as bright as…
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A clerical correspondent writes us from the Southern coast protesting against the rapid tendency to amalgamation… Franklin Repository 1863-12-09 page 4, column 4 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library A clerical correspondent writes us from the Southern coast protesting against the rapid tendency to amalgamation. He says that…
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The Two or More Races population is projected to be the fastest growing over the next 46 years (see Table 2), with its population expected to triple in size (an increase of 226 percent). This group is projected to increase from 8 million to 26 million between 2014 and 2060. Its share of the total…