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: February 2016
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Allyson Hobbs: A Chosen Exile Miami University Room 1 Upham Hall 100 Bishop Circle Oxford, Ohio 45056 Thursday, 2016-02-25, 17:00 EST (Local Time) The E.E. McClellan Lecture in History Allyson Hobbs is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Stanford University. Her book A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life,…
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Unwanted in their mothers’ country and unwelcome in their fathers’ homeland, Filipino Amerasians are still in search of a home.
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Mixed Kids Aren’t Going to Save the World Leah and Black History Month 2016-02-16 Leah Anneli I have a Black father and a white mother. I’m mixed. I’m not a unicorn. I think there are some misconceptions about who mixed race people are and what function we serve in society. Let’s unpack those. We’re not…
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The True Story of the ‘Free State of Jones’ The Smithsonian Magazine March 2016 Richard Grant; Photographs by William Widmer A new Hollywood movie looks at the tale of the Mississippi farmer who led a revolt against the Confederacy With two rat terriers trotting at his heels, and a long wooden staff in his hand,…
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I Feel Guilty for Being Able to ‘Pass’ as a Person of Color Kveller 2016-02-18 Elana Rabinowitz Brooklyn, New York He called me negra. Not mami or guapa, but what translates to “black woman.” I wasn’t offended. More confused. The thing is, I’m really just a white Jewish girl from Brooklyn. There, I said it.…
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The Struggles Of Being Biracial Odyssey 2016-02-08 Tamera Hyatte “What are you?” I cannot tell you how many times I have been asked this question and the same response I like to give is “I’m human.” I know it strikes people’s curiosity that I am mixed with black and white, having a white father and…
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#LookingForMezclas Hugo Amsellem Cali, Colombia 2016-02-11 Exploring the challenges of mingling identities with photos & stories of cool people I meet around the streets of the cities that I visit during my year-long travel… For more information, click here.