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: July 2015
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Breaking the silence on Afro-Cuban history Daily Kos 2015-07-26 Denise Oliver Velez The news of the re-opening of Cuba’s embassy in the U.S., and America’s embassy in Cuba, was covered worldwide this past week, garnering particular interest in the Caribbean and Latin America, and in Cuban-American communities in the U.S., in stories like this: Cuba…
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I Am a Native American Woman With White Privilege YES, I SAID; YES, I WILL, YES. writing by Misty Ellingburg 2015-07-24 Misty Ellingburg First off, I think it’s important to say that I do not, and have not ever primarily identified as white. On my mother’s side, I’m Native American, enrolled in ghostmy Tribe, and,…
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Hiding Black Behind the Ears: On Dominicans, Blackness, and Haiti Gawker 2015-07-25 Roberto C. Garcia The first friend I made in Elizabeth, New Jersey was a white kid named Billy. As a New York transplant my Dominicano look wasn’t too popular with Jersey folk. I had an afro, wore dress pants, a collared shirt, and…
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New UW center to encourage race, diversity dialogue The Seattle Times 2015-07-12 Katherine Long, Seattle Times higher education reporter Ralina Joseph is the new director of the University of Washington’s Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity. (Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times) A new center at the University of Washington aims to help people figure out…
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‘Key & Peele’ to End After Its Fifth Season The New York Times 2015-07-25 Jonah Bromwich The Comedy Central show “Key & Peele,” an absurdist sketch comedy that has become known for recurring skits like one in which an “anger translator” expresses emotions on President Obama’s behalf, will end after its current season. Speaking to…
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Rutgers Takes a Yearlong Look at Race, Place and Space in the Americas Rutgers Today Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 2011-10-21 Carrie Stetler History professors Ann Fabian, left, and Mia Bay have been awarded a $175,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to explore how place has impacted the role of race…