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: January 2016
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Phoebe Boswell: The Matter of Memory Africanah.org: Arena for Contemporary African, African-American and Caribbean Art Amsterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands 2015-02-05 Yvette Greslé, Art Historian/Writer Edited by Rob Perrée Phoebe Boswell. ‘The Matter of Memory’, 2013-14. Installation view at Carroll/Fletcher [detail]. Courtesy the artist and Carroll/Fletcher. I settle into an armchair and am surprised by…
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“Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience” is a collection of essays by mixed race philosophers about the mixed race experience. Each essay is meant to represent one of three possible things: (1) what the philosopher sees as the philosopher’s best work, (2) evidence of the possible impact of the philosopher’s mixed race experience on the…
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A Mixed Race Feminist Blog Interview with Isabel Adonis A Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-01-15 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom About Isabel Adonis I’m a private tutor, artist and writer and I live in Wales. My mother was a white Welsh woman and my father was a black man from Georgetown in Guyana. He…
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Tío Tomás’s Cabin: Marco Rubio and White Cubanidad Latino Rebels 2016-01-14 Jason Nichols, Lecturer in African American Studies University of Maryland Last semester I had a young man turn in an assignment in which students were instructed to write to a current presidential candidate. This particular student had been outspoken and one of the more…
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The Forgotten Era of Punjabi-Mexicans OZY 2016-01-13 Nick Fouriezos, Reporter/Researcher Like a good comedian, Mary Singh Rai picked from her three identities to best suit her listener. “When I’m with Americans, I like to think of myself as one,” the native of Yuba City, California, said in a 2012 interview. But in some ways, the…
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Musician Chi-chi Nwanoku discussing her life and work on Talking Africa BlackRook Media 2015-05-12 Musician Chi-chi Nwanoku has been discussing her life and work on Talking Africa. Chi-Chi is a passionate advocate of music and particularly the double bass. She is a Principal Double Bass and founder member of the Orchestra of the Age of…
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Hundreds gather over Maggie Walker statue controversy WWBT, NBC 12 Richmond, Virginia 2016-01-12 Ashley Monfort, Henrico Reporter RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) – Discussion about plans to build a statue of Maggie Walker in downtown Richmond drew a lot of opinions on both sides. Hundreds of residents gathered at the Richmond Public Library Tuesday to have their…