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: April 2016
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Britain’s first black female High Court judge opens up about racism at the bar Legal Cheek London, United Kingdom 2016-03-30 Katie King, Reporter Clerks would Tippex out her name on briefs and write in the name of male pupil they wanted to be the tenant Dame Linda Dobbs has exposed shameful incidents of racism and…
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Tribeca 2016 Preview: Nelsan Ellis, Armani Jackson, Melanie Lynskey in ‘Little Boxes’ Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2016-03-31 Tambay A. Obenson Nelsan Ellis, Armani Jackson, Melanie Lynskey in “Little Boxes“ The 2016 Tribeca Film Festival kicks off in a couple of weeks, running from April 13-24 in New York City. Leading…
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6 Afro-Latinos Open Up About What It Means To Be Black And Latino Latino Voices The Huffington Post 2016-03-23 Carolina Moreno, Editor Watch them explain why they’re both and they’re proud! Too black to be Latino and too Latino to be black is a feeling many Afro-Latinos know too well — but the reality is…
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The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde W. W. Norton & Company February 2000 512 pages 6.2 × 9.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-31972-9 Audre Lorde (1934-1992) A complete collection—over 300 poems—from one of this country’s most influential poets.
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Trevor Noah: ‘It’s easier to be an angry white man than an angry black man’ The Guardian 2016-04-02 Lanre Bakare, Deputy Arts Editor Trevor Noah photographed at the Daily Show offices. Photograph: Christopher Lane Six months ago the South African comic took on the trickiest task in comedy; replacing Jon Stewart as host of the…
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AmbryShare Restores Genes to the Public Domain The Huffington Post 2016-03-29 Amal Cheema, Biochemistry and Political Science Student Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts “As a stage four cancer survivor, I find it shocking that public and private laboratories routinely lock away vital genomic information. That practice is delaying medical progress, causing real human suffering, and it…
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I told my reflection, with the impossible hubris of a child, That white boy will never be me. I wasn’t, I decided in the basement of our rented duplex on Dwight Drive in Madison, going to be made to live that lie. I would decide what and who was important to me and become who…
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Synagogues Need to Welcome and Celebrate Jewish Diversity Tablet 2016-03-31 MaNishtana MaNishtana is the psuedonym of Shais Rishon, an Orthodox African-American Jewish blogger, editor-at-large at JN Magazine, and author of Thoughts From A Unicorn and Fine, thanks. How are YOU, Jewish? Follow him on Twitter @MaNishtana. Thoughts on the importance of the updated list of…