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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Identity Is At The Heart Of Brash, Essential ‘Mulattos’ National Public Radio 2015-08-07 Michael Schaub, Book Critic Williams, Tom, Among The Wild Mulattos and Other Tales (Huntsville, Texas: Texas Review Press, 2015) “Odder than two-headed calves, stranger than, Uri Geller who could bend spoons with his mind.” That’s how the narrator of “Who Among Us…
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Most of the time I see myself as mixed, but when I see black men and women brutalized or killed for breathing while black, I’m black, and proudly, viscerally so. Shannon Luders-Manuel, “What it Means to be Mixed Race During the Fight for Black Lives,” For Harriet, August 12, 2015. http://www.forharriet.com/2015/08/what-it-means-to-be-mixed-race-during.html.
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Kang Soo-il’s drugs ban ruins inspirational tale for mixed-race Koreans The Guardian 2015-07-30 John Duerden, Asian football correspondent The striker with an American GI father was on the verge of a dream debut for South Korea after a lifetime struggle against discrimination when he tested positive for an anabolic steroid he blamed on moustache-growing cream…
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The complicated relationship between Asian Americans and affirmative action Quartz 2015-07-17 Lauren Gurley In most places, my hair and my skin color don’t stand out in a crowd. In the past, people have mistaken me for Mexican, Italian, Hawaiian, and Israeli. Although sometime this has felt like a privilege and a reason for pride, at…
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New group looks to bring together mixed-race students Columbia Daily Spectator New York, New York 2015-04-08 Marium Dar, Spectator Staff Writer A new student group is hoping to create a safe space for mixed-race students to discuss the challenges and struggles they face when discussing self-identity and racialization. The Mixed-Race Students Society of Columbia University,…
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DNA Is Said to Solve a Mystery of Warren Harding’s Love Life The New York Times 2015-08-12 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — She was denounced as a “degenerate” and a “pervert,” accused of lying for money and shamed for waging a “diabolical” campaign of falsehoods against the president’s family that tore away…
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I am where I am today only because men and women like Rosanell Eaton refused to accept anything less than a full measure of equality. Their efforts made our country a better place. It is now up to us to continue those efforts. Congress must restore the Voting Rights Act. Our state leaders and legislatures…