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: June 17, 2015
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There is a lesson here for us, for we who are white and care deeply about racial equity, justice and liberation, and the lesson is this: authentic antiracist white identity is what we must cultivate. We cannot shed our skin, nor our privileges like an outdated overcoat. They are not accessories to be donned or…
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The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race Johns Hopkins Univesity Press August 2012 240 pages 1 halftone, 1 line drawing Hardback ISBN: 9781421407005 Rebecca Anne Goetz, Associate Professor of History New York University In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices…
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Rachel Dolezal’s Unintended Gift to America The New York Times 2015-06-17 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University Allyson Hobbs is the author of “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.” In James Baldwin’s 1968 novel “Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone,” a child points to his light-skinned…
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The spectrum of shades and colorings that constitute “black” identity in the United States, and the equal claim to black identity that someone who looks like [Walter] White or [Louis T.] Wright (or, for that matter, [Rachel] Dolezal) can have, is a direct product of bloodlines that attest to institutionalized rape during and after slavery.…
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Cultural Appropriation Metro Morning CBC Toronto 2015-06-16 Matt Galloway, Host The controversial head of the Spokane, Washington branch of the N.A.A.C.P., Rachel Dolezal, has stepped down from her post. Matt Galloway spoke with Rema Tavares, she is the founder of Mixed in Canada. Listen to the interview (00:07:21) here.
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White people have been passing for black for centuries. A historian explains. Vox 2015-06-15 Dara Lind, Jetpack Comandante The story of Rachel Dolezal — the now-former Spokane NAACP president whose parents have claimed she’s white — has opened up an enormously complicated debate about race and identity in general, and blackness in America in particular.…
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The 3 Biggest Issues Around Rachel Dolezal Mixed in Canada 2015-06-15 Rema Tavares Like many folks across North America, as soon as the Rachel Dolezal story broke, I was baffled. Here was yet another example of cultural appropriation of Blackness, which is quite commonplace (think Iggy Azalea, for example), but this story is a bit…
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The Trouble with Virginia Michele Beller: writing the mixed-race experience of America, from Buckingham County, Virginia, to Dominica, West Indies, and beyond 2014-11-21 Michele Beller Finally. My book project is coming to life. My dream of writing is here. As I learn new things or have something interesting to share, I promise you, I’ll post…