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 15, 2015
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Putting History in Its Place: An Interview with Bernardine Evaristo Contemporary Women’s Writing Volume 9 Issue 3 November 2015 pages 433-448 DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpv003 Jennifer Gustar, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada Bernardine Evaristo was born in Woolwich, London, to an English mother of Irish descent…
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Rachel Dolezal: ‘I wasn’t identifying as black to upset people. I was being me’ The Guardian 2015-12-13 Chris McGreal, Senior Writer Guardian US Rachel Dolezal at her home in Spokane. Photograph: Annie Kuster for the Guardian She became a global hate figure this year when she was outed as a ‘race faker’. Here, she talks…
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First Baptist unveils historic marker The Tennesseean Nashville, Tennessee 2015-12-09 Jennifer Easton If people of faith go to First Baptist Church on East Winchester Street looking for a sign, they’ll find it. Sumner County’s oldest known African-American church celebrated another milestone Dec. 6 with the dedication of a historic marker commemorating the 150-year-old church’s early…