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: October 2015
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The story of John Roland Redd a.k.a. Korla Pandit is unlike any I’ve encountered in popular culture. He presented an abstracted yet alluring version of India without even a semblance of authenticity. Korla represented the Far East as viewed through the eyes of the West. That speech comparing rubies to wisdom, for instance, comes not…
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Multiethnic Adults Grapple With Questions of Identity KQED News San Francisco, California 2015-10-14 Adizah Eghan In his 1964 Nobel Prize lecture, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. described humanity as a “world house,” filled with family of all backgrounds who must somehow learn to live with each other. Within the borders of our countries, cities…
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Brown campus newspaper issues apology after racist columns The Associated Press 2015-10-07 Amy Anthony PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Brown University campus newspaper apologized Wednesday after publishing what it says were two “deeply hurtful” and racist columns. The Brown Daily Herald’s editorial board published an editor’s note saying it regretted the hurt caused by the…
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A Statement from a Collective of Multiracial and Biracial Students bluestockings magazine Monday, 2015-10-12 Multiracial and Biracial Students at Brown For further context, please see the bluestockings editors statement. Introduction We, a collective of multiracial and biracial students, write this statement to address the publication of a series of articles by the Brown Daily Herald,…
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Korla Pandit spoke not a word when he was on camera. He just wore a bejeweled turban, played the organ… and stared. That was the extent of his act. It was all he needed — the shimmery tones of his music, the vague evocation of the Far East, and that indelible Mona Lisa countenance with…
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OPINION: The changing racial makeup Commerce News Today Commerce, Georgia 2015-10-13 Cameron Whitlock, Reporter The racial makeup of the United States is changing. That’s not an opinion, that’s a cold hard fact. By 2050, racial minority groups will make up a majority of the U.S. population. According to the U.S. Census Bureau and a study…
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Lecture, forum at UH-Hilo to explore Filipino identity Hawaii Tribune-Herald Hilo, Hawaii 2015-10-13 Dr. Ronald R. Sundstrom Dr. Ronald Sundstrom, professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco, will deliver a public lecture titled “The Filipino-American Experience and The Post-Racial State” from 4-5:30 p.m. Friday at the University of Hawaii at Hilo UCB 127.…
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Exotic Korla Pandit hid race under swami persona SFGate 2015-08-15 Jessica Zack Eric Christensen grew up in San Francisco in the 1950s and remembers his mother, “like a lot of women then, being transfixed by Korla Pandit on television. He wore a jeweled turban and had these mesmerizing eyes that made women feel he could…