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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The SRB Interview: Jackie Kay Scottish Review of Books Volume 11, Issue 3 (2016) Opening one of Jackie Kay’s books is like walking into a busy metropolitan bar that has accommodated within its walls the deep past, character and charm of a country pub. You know you will encounter stories comic and sad, that you…
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Misty Copeland Opens Up About ‘Lack of Diversity’ in Ballet World Variety 2016-04-09 Misty Copeland spoke from the heart at Variety’s third annual Power of Women New York event about her journey “from living in a motel to dancing on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House.”
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Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings: A Novel Viking Books 2016-04-05 624 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780525429968 Ebook ISBN: 9780698410336 Stephen O’Connor A debut novel about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in whose story the conflict between the American ideal of equality and the realities of slavery and racism played out in the most tragic of…
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The black people ‘erased from history’ BBC News Magazine 2016-04-10 Arlene Gregorius, BBC Mexico More than a million people in Mexico are descended from African slaves and identify as “black”, “dark” or “Afro-Mexican” even if they don’t look black. But beyond the southern state of Oaxaca they are little-known and the community’s leaders are now…
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Jussie Smollett Talks About Growing Up in a Biracial Home and Pranking His ‘Empire’ Costars ABC News 2016-04-08 Angela Williams, Entertainment TV Producer There is lots of great music, loads of drama and plenty of surprises packed into each episode of Fox’s “Empire.” And much of it is centered around break-out star Jussie Smollett who…
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Allyson Hobbs discusses A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Monday, 2016-04-11, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University Allyson Hobbs discusses the paperback release of her book A Chosen Exile:…
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So here I am. I’m still black and I’m proud, but I will acknowledge the white blood that is running through my veins if pressed more about my heritage. I also love to see the shock on peoples’ faces when I tell them that my ancestors were raped by slave masters and my “mulatto” and…
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This is very hard for me to write because I don’t know how to begin.
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Meet Yosif Stalin, The Soviet-Born Black American From Kremlin, Virginia Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 2016-04-08 Carl Schrek KREMLIN, Virginia — Yosif Stalin stood before his Kremlin home on a windswept afternoon this spring, his weathered hands gripping his walker. “I still own it,” he said of the white, two-story house off a lonely country road.…