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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Day: December 5, 2015
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Mixed Race Children: A Study of Identity Unwin Hyman July 1987 230 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0043701683 8.5 x 5.7 x 1 inches Anne Wilson (1955-) Wilson’s research was conducted in England from October 1979 to May 1980 and focused on children of white/black (mainly West Indian) parentage. Using ‘snowball’ methods of recruitment, she was able…
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave Lushena Books 2014-02-20 (Originally published in 1849) 104 pages 0.2 x 4.9 x 7.9 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 1631820060 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1631820069 Henry Bibb (1815-1854) Read the entire narrative, courtesy of Documenting the American South (DocSouth) here.
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“Children of color in general either tend to get left out of school curriculum and societal teachings or hyper-visibilized in negative, harmful ways. Multiracial kids—since mixed race is still not often considered a “legitimate” group (by both whites and people of color alike)—often experience an added layer of invisibility that is so damaging for their…
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The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control Verso Books November 2012 (Originally published in August, 1997) 372 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781844677696 Ebook ISBN: 9781844678433 Theodore W. Allen (1919-2005) Introduction and notes by Jeffrey B. Perry Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America. When the first Africans arrived…
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Kansas City Artist Shane Evans, Co-Author Taye Diggs Demystify Mixed-Race Families In New Book KCUR 89.3 Kansas City, Missouri 2015-12-04 Laura Ziegler, Special Correspondent Shane Evans at KCUR studios to talk about illustrating new children’s book (Laura Ziegler KCUR) Kansas City artist Shane Evans was raised by a mother and father whose racial and cultural…