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 Terrible Things People Say to Interracial Couples Slate 2015-10-01 David Rosenberg Donna Pinckley For the past couple of decades, most of Donna Pinckley’s photographs have focused on children and the objects that have personal significance for them. A few years ago, though, the University of Central Arkansas photography teacher noticed a post on Facebook…
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“To be hybrid anticipates the future.” —Isamu Noguchi, 1942
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12 British Poets Share Their Favourite Poems For #NationalPoetryDay BuzzFeed 2015-10-08 Fiona Rutherford, BuzzFeed News Reporter London, England …3. Rachel Long Amaal Said Age: 26 Themes in your work: Sexuality, growing up, hurt, mixed parentage, love, eating disorders, death, dreams. Favourite poem: Impossible to choose. I’ve sat here for a half hour with fingers over…
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How the Hawaiian word ‘hapa’ came to be used by people of mixed heritage Public Radio International (PRI) 2015-09-15 Nina Porzucki, Producer Recently, an old friend of mine, Julie Jimenez had a language question she wanted me to investigate: Where does the word “hapa” come from? Julie considers herself hapa. Her father is from Chile,…
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Illicit Labor: MacArthur’s Mistress and Imperial Intimacies Radical History Review Volume 2015, Number 123 (October 2015) pages 87-114 DOI: 10.1215/01636545-3088168 Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Associate Professor of American Studies University of Hawaii, Mānoa This essay examines a brief affair between General Douglas MacArthur and a mixed-race Filipina vaudeville actress named Isabel Rosario Cooper. It focuses on…
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“I think she [Rachel Dolezal] was a bit of a hero, because she kind of flipped on society a little bit. Is it such a horrible thing that she pretended to be black? Black is a great thing, and I think she legit changed people’s perspective a bit and woke people up.” —Rihanna (Robyn Rihanna…
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Something Old, Something New BBC Radio 4 2015-10-06 Johny Pitts, Host Peter Meanwell, Producer Recorded & mixed! Finished @BBCRadio4 (Engineer Steve Hellier with Johny Pitts) Source: Peter Meanwell From Sheffield to South Carolina, Johny Pitts explores alternative Black British identity. What happens when your Dad’s an African-American soul star [Richie Pitts] and your Mum’s a…
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The most famous ‘Indian’ on 1950s American TV The Times of India 2015-10-04 Malini Nair Korla Pandit was the first African American to have a TV show to himself – by pretending to be an exotic Indian musician The story is almost unbelievable. In the US of the 1940s, a light-skinned African American youth discovers…