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: March 2016
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Mat Johnson: Black & White & Read All Over The Austin Chronicle Austin, Texas 2015-06-18 Wayne Alan Brenner Our interview with the Houston-based author This is an interview with Mat Johnson, who wrote the acclaimed Pym – which is somehow a popular favorite and a cult favorite, simultaneously, we’d swear – and who is most…
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“When I discovered that I’m black”: How racism is so cruel, that it makes it difficult for black people to recognize themselves as such Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2016-03-04 Jônatas Cordeiro da Silva Originally “When I discovered that I’m black: “I’ll tell my story, because I…
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We Live Here rerun: Being biracial in America St. Louis Public Radio 90.7 KWMU, KWMU-2, KWMU-3: News That Matters. Saint Louis, Missouri 2016-03-07 Shula Neuman, Executive Editor We originally aired this podcast on what its like to be multi-racial about six months ago. The project was the brainchild of Emanuele Berry, one of the founding…
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‘Free State of Jones’ author talks The Clarion-Ledger Jackson, Mississippi 2016-03-02 Author Victoria Bynum discusses her book, Free State of Jones, which is now a new Hollywood movie starring Matthew Mcconaughey. Watch the interview here.
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Darnell Martin Has Looked At Racial Issues From Both Sides Orlando Sentinal Orlando, Florida 1994-10-28 Glenn Lovell San Jose Mercury News Darnell Martin is talking about growing up in an interracial household in the Bronx and about a childhood that inspired her impressive debut feature, I Like It Like That. Her take on street life…
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In 2005 Margaret Jones Bolsterli learned that her great-great-grandfather was a free mulatto named Jordan Chavis, who owned an antebellum plantation near Vicksburg, Mississippi. The news was a shock; Bolsterli had heard about the plantation in family stories told during her Arkansas Delta childhood, but Chavis’s name and race had never been mentioned.
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The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War University of North Carolina Press March 2016 352 pages 32 halftones, 10 maps, 4 tables appends., notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN 978-1-4696-2705-2 Victoria E. Bynum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Texas State University, San Marcos With a New Afterword by the Author Between late…
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Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Workplace: Emerging Issues and Enduring Challenges Praeger March 2016 415 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 9978-1-4408-3369-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4408-3370-0 Edited by: Margaret Foegen Karsten, Professor of Human Resource Management; Internship Coordinator School of Business University of Wisconsin, Platteville For America to prosper, organizations need to address disparate treatment…