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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What’s the Difference with “Difference”? University of Washington Kane Hall, Room 120 4069 Spokane Lane Seattle, Washington 98105 2016-01-14, 19:30 PST (Local Time) Ralina L. Joseph, Associate Professor Department of Communication (also adjunct associate professor in the Departments of American Ethnic Studies and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) University of Washington Language is power. The…
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‘Blood quantum is important where I’m from…’
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Thai beauty ad: ‘Just being white, you will win’ Cable News Network (CNN) 2016-01-08 Wilfred Chan (CNN)—It’s hard to imagine anything more blatant than this. A new Thai beauty ad claiming white skin is the key to success has unleashed a storm of criticism in Thailand, especially online, where people complain the ad perpetuates damaging,…
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Al Sharpton says some criticism of de Blasio is related to his mixed race family The New York Daily News 2016-01-05 Jennifer Fermino, City Hall Bureau Chief The Rev. Al Sharpton thinks that some of Mayor de Blasio’s woes stem from his mixed race family. Speaking Tuesday morning at an interfaith breakfast, Sharpton said that…
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The Story of French New Orleans: History of a Creole City University Press of Mississippi January 2016 208 pages (approx.) 1 map, bibliography, index 6 x 9 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9781496804860 Dianne Guenin-Lelle, Professor of French Albion College, Albion, Michigan Why New Orleans is considered America’s distinctly French city What is it about the city…
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Brazil’s Federal Universities Approach Racial Quota Implementation Deadline Truthout 2015-12-30 Marlenee Blas Pedral, Fulbright Fellow Comissão Fulbright Brasil In 2016, Brazil’s prestigious federal universities will be required to confirm that fifty percent of their incoming students come from public schools. Furthermore, slots for self-identifying Black, mixed-race and Indigenous students must correspond to the proportion of…