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: July 20, 2015
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Nuns told her that “no man will ever want you, because you’re black”; a career counsellor said she should “consider taking man friends” to support herself. “I was told I wouldn’t amount to anything and should consider prostitution,” [Rosemary] Adaser says. Her black background was vilified and even denied, she says, and she was constantly…
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Meet this year’s outstanding contributors at The Globies! The Seattle Globalist 2015-07-17 Christina Twu, Editor/Contributor The Seattle Globalist is proud to recognize three brilliant Globalist writers that have made outstanding contributions to our publication this year, helping to grow our coverage and make 2015 a phenomenal year for us. Please join us in recognizing these…
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How should a dancer look? Ask Misty Copeland and Stella Abrera The Melissa Harris-Perry Show MSNBC 2015-07-18 Melissa Harris-Perry, Host Dancers Misty Copeland and Stella Abrera discuss their pioneering work as, respectively, the first African American and Filipino American principal ballerinas at the American Ballet Theater. Watch the video (00:07:46) here.
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The Adoption Papers Bloodaxe Books 1991 64 pages 21.6 x 13.9 x 0.5 cm Paperback ISBN: 978-1852241568 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University