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 First Multiracial Miss Universe Japan Has Been Crowned NBC News 2015-03-17 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang The stunning Miss Nagasaki, Ariana Miyamoto, is the first multiracial contestant ever to be crowned Miss Universe Japan and will represent Japan in the 2015 Miss Universe pageant. Born in Japan to a Japanese mother and African American father, Miyamoto…
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The Great Character theme for the month: Rebel. Today: Sam White from “Dear White People” (2014), written and directed by Justin Simien.
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Homeland Tour for Biracial Adoptees KoreAm 2015-03-09 Katherine Kim Dawn Tomlinson photographs by Denis Jeong International adoption began in South Korea in 1953, as thousands of Korean children were left parentless and/or homeless by the Korean War, while many others were born to Korean women and fathered by American GIs or soldiers from one of…
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Old Glory: The Symbol of One America 1696 Heritage Group 2015-03-16 Keith Stokes, Vice President Richard Gill Forrester, c. 1850 The photograph taken in 1850 during the earliest years of a new-fangled technology called photography, captures a well-dressed, handsome five year old boy named Richard Gill Forrester, of antebellum Richmond, Virginia. Just as the photograph…
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“If you’re passing due to white privilege, then you’re white in a societal way,”… “Now, does that build a different set of issues inside somebody who knows they’re not white, but they know that they’re passing as white? Yeah, sure. Who the fuck am I to sit here and act like I can speak for…
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How To Tell Someone They Sound Racist Ill Doctrine 2008-07-21 Jay Smooth You gotta use some strategy. See more of this discussion here.
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Hispanic Journalists To Survey Race In Spanish-Language TV After Univision Incident The Huffington Post 2015-03-17 Roque Planas Carolina Moreno The National Hispanic Journalists Association applauded Univision’s decision to fire host Rodner Figueroa, after he compared first lady Michelle Obama to a character from “Planet of the Apes” during a segment of “El Gordo Y La…
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The Contribution of Genomic Research to Explaining Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review American Journal of Epidemiology First Published online: 2015-03-01 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwu319 Jay S. Kaufman, Professor Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Lena Dolman McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Dinela Rushani McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada…
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A reconsideration of the role of self-identified races in epidemiology and biomedical research Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Available online: 2015-03-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.02.004 Ludovica Lorusso Department of Political Science, Communication, Engineering and Information Technologies University of Sassari, Italy Department of Philosophy…
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‘Kiss me, I’m Irish’ took on a new meaning when DNA proved that I was The Guardian 2015-03-17 Michael W. Twitty New tests confirmed what my family had long known: our ancestors were children of their Irish-American slaveholders Like many African Americans, I was excited by the possibility of using DNA tests to learn about…