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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Set in the suburbs and cities of the Midwest, Mid-South, and Texas, these stories explore the lives of characters biracial, black, white, and all sorts of in-between. The intersections and collisions of contemporary life are in full effect here, where the distinctions between fast food and fine art, noble and naked ambitions, reality and reality…
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Stop Denying Me My Blackness: A Latina Speaks About Race The Huffington Post 2015-08-04 Vanessa Mártir I’d been in Wellesley for all of a few weeks when it first happened. It was the fall of 1989, my first year in boarding school. I was walking with another ABC (A Better Chance) student back to our…
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A short interview with Fred Wah Jacket2 2015-03-05 Rob McLennan Fred Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939, but he grew up in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. He studied music and English literature at the University of British Columbia in the early 1960s where he was one of the founding…
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One Tough Cookie: Fran Ross’s “Oreo” Written Decades Before Its Time Lawrence Public Library 707 Vermont Street Lawrence, Kansas 2015-07-31 Kate Gramlich There are a handful of books I have re-read several times because I found some deep, emotional connection with the characters, and each read is like a conversation with a dear old friend.…
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“In Brazil we do talk about race but not in an honest way – about white privilege, concentration of power, about the importance of diversity – no, we talk about how we’re all Brazilian, we’re all mixed.” —Paulo Rogerio Stephanie Nolen, “Three personal stories that show Brazil is not completely beyond racism,” The Globe and Mail,…
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My interracial family needs its own action figures The Washington Post 2015-08-06 Nevin Martell (Courtesy of the author) Growing up, I can recall owning only two black action figures in a massive collection that spanned movies, television and comic book characters. There was Lando Calrissian – the smooth talking, caped czar of Cloud City in…
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Poitier Revisited: Reconsidering a Black Icon in the Obama Age Bloomsbury Publishing 2015-01-15 288 pages 25 bw illus 229 x 152 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781623564919 Edited by: Ian Gregory Strachan, Associate Professor of English College of The Bahamas Mia Mask, Associate Professor of Film Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Sidney Poitier remains one of the…
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Book Review: CAUCASIA MixedRaceBooks 2016-07-26 Bethany Lam Senna, Danzy, Caucasia: A Novel (New York: Riverhead, 1999) Two biracial sisters—one light-skinned, one dark—are separated as children. The younger, lighter girl grows into a troubled teenager, but she never forgets her beloved older sister. Can she find her sister again … and with her sister, her self?…
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Book Review: “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life” by Allyson Hobbs The Santa Fe New Mexican 2015-05-15 Adele Oliveira A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs, Harvard University Press, 382 pages In the first chapter of The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du…
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One-sided Biracial TV Families– Why Are So Many Asian Moms MIA? AsAmNews 2015-08-05 Laylita Day I started to notice a disturbing trend among certain TV shows. Each one featured a biracial character, specifically a woman who had an Asian mom and White dad. The disturbing part of this was the fact that none of the…