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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Years passed, and the Johnstons prospered. They moved to Keene, New Hampshire, and occupied a place of professional and social esteem in their community. They never said a word about their racial background—not even to their children, who absorbed the same toxic prejudices as their white peers. One day, Albert Jr. came home spouting some…
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Yes, we get that race doesn’t exist, but that doesn’t mitigate the concept’s very real impact on the everyday racism and anti-blackness that saturates our culture. [Rachel] Dolezal’s poor facsimile co-opts a struggle foreign to her own for personal gain. This is the pinnacle of white privilege: being white, pretending to be Black, and profiting…
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My Mixed Identity: Growing Up As A Mixed American Odyssey 2016-03-29 Ryan McDaniel It is 2016 and interracial marriage is on the rise. Consequently, the number of mixed Americans is on the rise. Naturally, there is a lot of controversy regarding the matter that comes in different forms. People oppose it for the false reasoning…
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That awful moment parents of interracial children will probably face The Washington Post 2016-04-26 Nevin Martell “Is that your son?” the man suddenly asked, without any preamble, and with an aggressive edge to his tone. I was sitting in the dining area of a local Whole Foods after finishing the weekly shopping with my 3-year-old…
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Navigating Racial Liminality The Tufts Observer Medford, Massachusetts Issue 4 Spring 2016 2016-03-28 Conrad Young Kindergarten was the first time my racial identity was called into question. My mom came into my class to do a show-and-tell about my family’s time in the Republic of Macedonia, where I lived from ages one to four while…
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atrina Jagodinsky’s enlightening history is the first to focus on indigenous women of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the existing legal regimes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In most western states, it was difficult if not impossible for Native women to inherit property, raise…
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22nd Annual David Noble Lecture featuring Robin D.G. Kelley Best Buy Theater Northrop Auditorium 84 Church Street, SE Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 Tuesday, 2016-04-26, 19:00 CDT (Local Time) Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor of History & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History University of California, Los Angeles The 22nd Annual David Noble Lecture…
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“Marrying Out” for Love: Women’s Narratives of Polygyny and Alternative Marriage Choices in Contemporary Senegal African Studies Review Volume 59, Number 1, April 2016 pages 155-174 Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Lecturer in African Studies University College London This article examines the ways in which childhood and youth experiences of living in polygynous households shape the aspirations…
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Color Lines: Sex, Race, and Body Politics in Pre/Colonial Ghana Indiana University, Bloomington Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society Schuessler Institute for Social Research 1022 E. 3rd Street Maple Room, IMU Bloomington, Indiana 47405 Thursday, 2016-04-28, 16:00-17:30 EDT (Local Time) Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University,…