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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Rachel/Racial Theory: Reverse Passing in the Curious Case of Rachel Dolezal Transition Magazine 2015-06-26 Damon Sajnani (AKA ProfessorD.us), Professor of African Cultural Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison Rachel Dolezal has done more than break the internet and fuel Black twitter and emcee cyphers with innumerable punchlines. She has provided the first high-profile contemporary case of…
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White or black? Sometimes it’s not so clear-cut StarNews Online Wilmington, North Carolina 2015-10-03 Beverly Smalls In June, as Rachel Dolezal of Spokane, Wash., confused members of the NAACP as well as her family, friends and the public about her choice to identify as an African-American, new conversations began. Dolezal was accused of being a…
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Bill de Blasio, Chirlane McCray are now empty nesters as daughter goes to college The New York Daily News 2015-09-17 Jennifer Fermino, City Hall Bureau Chief Chiara de Blasio, seen here with her mom, First Lady Chirlane McCray, left for college on Thursday. David Wexler/New York Daily News The city’s First Family is officially empty…
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“I remember a mom of a friend of mine in the suburbs made some comment about a black person and – I had to be 12, about 60 pounds – and I said something and she said: ‘Oh no, not you. You are not black. You are great.’ It was real. That fucking happened. And…
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Chi-chi Nwanoku: ‘I want black musicians to walk on to the stage and know they belong’ The Guardian 2015-06-02 Chi-chi Nwanoku Chi-chi Nwanoku: ‘I feel sure that bringing a group of people together to play incredible music is a creatively powerful and positive thing.’ Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi For 30 years, double bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku has…
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NEW TO YOUTUBE | Chineke! – Europe’s First Black Orchestra Concert Debut [VIDEO] The Violin Channel 2015-09-15 Debut concert performance of the Chineke! Orchestra – Europe’s first professional orchestra made up entirely of musicians of colour. The 60-piece ensemble, founded by British double bassist Chichi Nwanoku, was established with the objective of making a conscious…
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Marisa Franco The Graduate School University of Maryland 2015-05-21 “My graduate degree is shaping my life and career in a number of ways. The research skills I have gained at the University of Maryland have prepared me for a career in research in academia. An International Graduate Research Fellowship, in addition, gave me the opportunity…
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Impact of Identity Invalidation for Black Multiracial People: The Importance of Race of Perpetrator Journal of Black Psychology Published online before print: 2015-09-08 DOI: 10.1177/0095798415604796 Marisa G. Franco University of Maryland Stephen A. Franco St. George’s University, St. George, Grenada, West Indies Multiracial people report repeated experiences of racial identity invalidation, in which their racial…
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Chris Harper Mercer: details emerge of Oregon college killer The Guardian 2015-10-02 Ben Jacobs and Nicky Woolf Chris Harper Mercer, the alleged gunman in the Oregon shootings. He had captioned this photo: ‘Me, holding a rifle.’ Photograph: Myspace Umpqua college shooter, who was born in England according to media reports, had a varied online presence…