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: April 2015
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The Remix: Dr. Yaba Blay on Colorism, Kendrick Lamar & Trevor Noah The Remix with Dr. James Peterson WHYY 90.9 FM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2015-04-01 James Braxton Peterson, Host and Associate professor of English Lehigh University, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Comedy Central has named South African comedian Trevor Noah to helm “The Daily Show” when John Stewart departs…
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How I Learned to Stop Worshipping Whiteness While Growing Up Biracial For Harriet 2015-04-08 Joleen Brantle I haven’t always been very racially aware. When I was a child Pokémon cards, cartoons, and school were of vastly greater importance to me. I was raised in a very diverse city with a strong Latino presence. I had…
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Biracial Identity, which do you identify with? The Spartan Daily: Serving San Jose State since 1934 San Jose, California 2015-04-09 Andrea Sandoval Identity is a complicated matter; everyone has one, but rarely are people aware of how they get one. The boundaries, symbols and language that make identity stand out are often unclear. What qualities…
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A real-life Lucious Lyon: The former slave who built a Beale Street “Empire” and transformed Memphis
A real-life Lucious Lyon: The former slave who built a Beale Street “Empire” and transformed Memphis Salon 2015-04-04 Preston Lauterbach Bob Church (Credit: University of Memphis Special Collections) Memphis — and music as we know it — wouldn’t be the same without Robert Church’s legacy of vice, virtue and power Depending on which critic or…
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One Drop of Love is coming to Massachusetts and New York in April One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval 2015-04-07 Photo by Jeff Lorch “What Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni brings to the table is a moving and insightful microscope to our belief that there is such a thing as race…
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Black and Yellow: Blasian Narratives Psychology Today 2015-04-07 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Ed.D. Crossing racial borders through storytelling Saturday night I went to an event called, Black and Yellow: Blasian Narratives, featuring students from Stanford joining a group from Morehouse and Spelman, two historically black colleges. The students presented both monologues and interactive storytelling. Their diversity was…
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How one man has made a mark on history in northeast N.C. The Outer Banks Voice 2015-04-04 Ed Beckley Marvin T. Jones has a passion for local heritage and is responsible for a half dozen historical markers in the area. Our region’s rich history is brought to the fore each time someone who passes a…
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LAURA KINA Blue Hawai’i The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture Brooklyn, New York 2015-04-02 Jonathan Goodman HAROLD B. LEMMERMAN GALLERY, NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY JANUARY 27 – MARCH 3, 2015 As an Asian-American painter of mixed background, Laura Kina creates work that is as culturally relevant as it is emotionally resonant.…