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: September 2015
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‘Remnants of Slavery’ column shows racial ignorance Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2015-09-20 Rebecca Keller O’Hara Township, Pennsylvania I’m greatly troubled by Jack Kelly’s historically flawed column “Remnants of Slavery” (Sept. 13) because it falsely enables an often unhearing percentage of the white majority to tell people of color that our modern-day experiences with racism are an illusion.…
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Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century University of Pennsylvania Press 2014 280 pages 6 x 9 12 illus. Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-4609-4 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8122-0970-9 Iris Idelson-Shein, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow Martin Buber Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main European Jews, argues Iris Idelson-Shein,…
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“Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White” is an arresting and moving personal story about childhood, race, and identity in the American South, rendered in stunning illustrations by the author, Lila Quintero Weaver.
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Why some Muslims don’t want Ahmed Mohamed’s blackness to be ignored The Washington Post 2015-09-17 Abby Phillip, General Assignment Reporter Ahmed Mohamed is now a 14-year-old with a national following and a long list of powerful people on his calling card. After he was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school to impress his…
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In Memoriam: Tony Gleaton The afrolatin@ forum 2015-09-01 Tony Gleaton, among the first photographers to document Latin Americans of African descent, passed away last week. He leaves behind an impressive body of work which undoubtedly contributed to the growing Black consciousness movement throughout the Americas. Tony began his Latin American photographic journey in the southern…