Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Day: October 8, 2015
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“My mother said, ‘By identifying yourself as black, you’re cutting out the whole other side of your heritage. You’re not acknowledging the fact that half of you is white, that half of your background is white.’ That I wasn’t acknowledging that she existed.” “I’m starting to see myself as mixed. If I’m asked my identity,…
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Employee’s Change in Racial Self-Identification Cannot Support Discrimination Claim if Employer Unaware of Change JD Supra Business Advisor 2015-10-05 Jonathan Crotty Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, Charlotte, North Carolina Michael Vanesse Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, Charlotte, North Carolina In recent years, more Americans have begun identifying themselves as biracial or of mixed…
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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,…