Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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: June 9, 2015
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The election of Barack Obama sent ripples of hope throughout the United States and the international community and seeded the notion that the country had transformed itself into a postracial utopia. Meanwhile, race itself, and racism, permeated political and social arenas nationwide as the American public grappled with the question of why and how much…
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Mark Duggan’s family lead call for a public inquiry into UK policing The Guardian 2015-06-07 Damien Gayle, Live Desk Reporter Carole Duggan, Duggan’s aunt, said her family had ‘ample evidence’ that police had misled an inquest into his death. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/the Guardian Campaigners say there are deep problems with Operation Trident, which investigates gun…
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Why Media Representation Matters To Biracial And Multiracial People Blue Nation Review 2015-06-04 John Paul Brammer, Identity Editor “So, you’re sort of nothing then.” I’ve only heard this once. Someone asked me what my race was because they were curious. I explained to them that I was mixed, that I had both indigenous and European…