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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Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi review – serious issues, fairytale narrative The Guardian 2015-10-04 Anthony Cummins Oyeyemi, Helen, Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel (New York: Riverhead Press, 2014) Oyeyemi’s fifth novel finds her treating the horrors of racism in 1950s America with gentle, magical style Helen Oyeyemi, a Granta best of young British novelist,…
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“I don’t like when people put me in the woman box or the Latina box or the political artist box,” she says. “That limits who I am as an individual. I want to instead embrace the possibility of who I can be. That’s where ultimate freedom is.” —Favianna Rodriguez Thea Singer, “How art can disrupt…
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Artist Favianna Rodriguez makes bold, sparkling works that light up a room even as they reveal dark cultural inequities.
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In an interview about the events last week that happened to my youngest son, I said that it takes an incident like this to make me truly realize that two of my sons are black. Betty Blake, “EXCLUSIVE: Race relations in America are ‘getting worse,’ says James Blake’s mother Betty, a white Briton who raised…
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Ten black composers whose works deserve to be heard more often The Guardian 2015-06-02 John Lewis English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912). Photograph: Unknown/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS The newly formed Chineke orchestra aims to include a work by a composer of ethnicity in each of its concert programmes. John Lewis looks at some of the neglected writers whose…
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Betty Blake, 80, is the mother of retired tennis star James Blake. Betty, who is white and grew up in England, talks about raising two sons who are black.
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Garifuna: The Young Black Latino Exodus You’ve Never Heard About Fusion 2014-06-04 Jasmine Garsd Honduran migrants passing through Mexico often carry only the bare essentials: cash, some clothes and a cell phone, if they can afford one. Gustavo Morales stands out among the migrant population here in Tequixquiac, a hot, dusty little town right outside…
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To Be Black And Boricua La Respuesta 2015-09-17 At this year’s Afro-Latino Festival of New York, La Respuesta teamed up with Project Bronx, the community-focused web series, for an exciting video collaboration. We spoke with festival attendees, artists, and vendors about a theme central to the festival’s focus. For the past 3 years, the Afro-Latino…