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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Day: April 13, 2015
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Beauty queen brings light to Japan’s racial issues CBS News 2015-04-13 Walking through the Shibuya section of Tokyo, Ariana Miyamoto certainly turns heads — and she wants to use that attention to change attitudes. When Miyamoto was crowned Miss Universe Japan in March, selected by a panel of seven Japanese judges, her surprise on stage…
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The Afro-Latino experience in the U.S. VOXXI 2012-02-09 Rosalba Ruiz Growing up in South Los Angeles in the 1970’s, Armando Brown never thought about his multiracial identity. “When I was growing up, I was black,” Brown, a 45-year-old photojournalist, says. “It was never an issue.” The son of a creole man from New Orleans and…