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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“Born With It” – Screening and Discussion with filmmaker Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, Jr. University of Southern California East Asian Studies Center University Park Campus Leavey Auditorium (LVL) 17 Tuesday, 2016-03-29, 16:15-17:45 PDT (Local Time) Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr., Filmaker “Born With It” follows the story of a 9-year-old Ghanaian-Japanese boy, Keisuke. Keisuke begins at a new school…
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Multiethnic student group Mixed receives 2016 Perkins Prize Cornell Chronicle Ithaca, New York 2016-03-17 Nancy Doolittle In 2015 members of the student club Mixed at Cornell created the print and digital Cornell Hapa Book Facebook page, featuring photographs and stories of 60 self-identified multiracial students, staff and faculty who answered the question, “What does being…
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What an 1887 murder and dismemberment tells us about race relations today The Philadelphia Inquirer 2016-02-17 Samantha Melamed, Staff Writer On the freezing-cold morning of Feb. 17, 1887, a Bensalem carpenter walking by an ice pond noticed a parcel wrapped in brown paper and marked “handle with care.” Inside, he found a male torso of…
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Six-year-old taken from California foster family under Indian Child Welfare Act The Guardian 2016-03-22 The Associated Press in Santa Clarita, California Lexi, who has lived with the foster family for years, was removed by a court order which says her Native American heritage requires her to live with Utah relatives A six-year-old girl who spent…
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“As White as Most White Women”: Racial Passing in Advertisements for Runaway Slaves and the Origins of a Multivalent Term American Studies Volume 54, Number 4, 2016 pages 73-97 Martha J. Cutter, Professor of English and Africana Studies University of Connecticut In 1731 a man named Gideon Gibson, along with several of his relatives, emigrated…
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As the director of African-American Studies at the University of Montana for the last seven years, I tell my students each semester, “I want you to know that I know I’m white.” I make clear that being passionate about racial justice does not require white people to become black. It requires those of us who…