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: August 2015
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When I talk about my family culture, I’m mixed. When I talk about racism, I’m black. When Trayvon Martin was shot for wearing a hoodie, I was black. When Eric Garner was choked to death for selling cigarettes on the street, I was black. When Sandra Bland was arrested for failing to turn on her…
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The beauty of being mixed race: How I learned to love my hapa eyes Today Show 2015-08-12 Samantha Okazaki, Multimedia Producer “Chinese eyes, Chinese eyes,” the whole table mocked me with their stupid song, pulling at the corners of their eyelids until they were tiny slits; a gross exaggeration of my actual eye shape. They…
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Press Release for That Daughter’s Crazy Paradox Smoke Productions 2014 Some apples don’t fall far from the tree. Paradox Smoke Productions is proud to announce the launch of their new documentary, That Daughter’s Crazy, starring Rain Pryor. That Daughter’s Crazy is directed by Elzbieta Szoka, and produced by Sam Adelman and Daryl Sledge, and will…
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Black-white mixed race identity rises in the South The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. 2015-08-12 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow As shown in my book, “Diversity Explosion,” the growth of black-white marriages in the United States is unmistakable, as are the gains in the population that identifies itself as “white and black,” particularly among the very…
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From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much Common Dreams 2015-06-15 Adolph Reed Jr., Professor of Political Science University of Pennsylvania By far the most intellectually and politically interesting thing about the recent “exposé” of Spokane, WA, NAACP activist Rachel Dolezal’s racial status is the conundrum it has posed for racial…
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Death, desire, and divination are the threads running through Jónína Kirton’s debut collection of poems and lyric prose. Delicate and dark, the pieces are like whispers in the night – a haunted, quiet telling of truths the mind has locked away but the body remembers. Loosely autobiographical, these are the weavings of a wagon-goddess who…
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Pauline Hopkins and the Death of the Tragic Mulatta JoAnn Pavletich, Associate Professor of English University of Houston, Houston, Texas Callaloo Volume 38, Number 3, Summer 2015 pages 647-663 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2015.0103 Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, turn-of-the-century intellectual, editor of the Colored American Magazine, and author of essays, plays, short stories, and four complex novels written in…
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Tom Williams: The TNB Self-Interview The Nervous Breakdown 2015-06-24 Tom Williams, Professor of English Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky You’re a hard guy to track down. I know, I know. I’m sorry. I just have a lot of obligations and duties—many roles to play. What roles? Husband, father, son, brother, department chair, mentor, friend, book…
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Scree: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1962–1991 Talonbooks 2015 640 pages 6 W x 9 H inches Hardcover ISBN 13: 9780889229471; ISBN 10: 0889229473 Fred Wah Edited and Introduction by: Jeff Derksen, Associate Professor of English Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Fred Wah’s career has spanned six decades and a range of formal styles…