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: December 2015
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“Brillo head,” “Don King,” “Sideshow Bob”: It took me years to embrace the hair that white people scorned Salon 2015-11-28 Sarah Enelow Growing up, everyone thought they could “fix” my hair. I believed them, and paid the price. I was 16 and had been in the bathroom for two hours working on my hair. My…
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‘We have a right to determine how our histories are told’: An interview with poet Toni Stuart Goldsmiths University of London News 2015-11-25 Sarah Cox On Thursday 3 December the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies (CCDS) and Centre for Feminist Research host a spoken word performance by Toni Stuart: poet, festival organiser and educator,…