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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Day: April 12, 2016
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Hybrid Details: Honoring Fred Wah: with Fred Wah, Wo Chan, Mark Nowak and Jeff Derksen Asian American Writers’ Workshop 112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor New York, New York 11366 Wednesday, 2016-04-13, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Poet Fred Wah is a living legend in Canada, but he remains woefully under-read in this country. To remedy…
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Ashley Minner is a community based visual artist from Baltimore, Maryland. She holds a BFA in Fine Art, an MA and an MFA in Community Art, which she earned at MICA. A member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, she has been active in the Baltimore Lumbee community for many years. Her involvement in…
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By all accounts, [Thomas] Jefferson’s sexual relationship with [Sally] Hemings spanned several decades, beginning when Hemings was a teenager and Jefferson was in his 40s. It was not, in any sense of the word, consensual: Hemings was a child, and Jefferson literally owned her; she was not in any position to give or withhold consent.…
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Raising mixed-race kids who feel secure in their identity NewsWorks WHYY Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2016-04-11 Lori L. Tharps, Assistant Professor of Journalism Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania I’m black American. My husband is from Spain. Before we started a family, the race of my future children never gave me cause for concern or worry. I guess I…
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On Monday, March 21, Colgate students and faculty gathered in the Persson Auditorium to listen to Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University Allyson Hobbs, who gave a lecture about her book “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.”
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Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South by Melissa Schrift (review) Journal of American Folklore Volume 129, Number 511, Winter 2016 pages 102-103 Jim Clark Melissa Schrift, Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013) In the thorough but concise introduction to her book…
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Coiled Serpent: Poems that Protect, in New Anthology KCET Burbank, California 2016-04-01 Mike Sonksen The coiled serpent serves as a poetic totem to protect the City of Angels. Published by Tia Chucha Press Over the last five years, a number of books and anthologies have been published to spotlight literary Los Angeles and its rich…
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Passionate about promoting diversity within the profession she is patron for Black British Academics and a Board member for various diversity organisations such as the Black Cultural Archives and the City Women Network.
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Tonight: Syfy Premieres New Alien Terrorist Series, ‘Hunters’ Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2016-04-11 Tambay A. Obenson Britne Olford – HUNTERS Tonight, Syfy premieres the first season of “Hunters” it’s new fantastical procedural thriller produced by Universal Cable Productions (in association with Valhalla Entertainment and Atlas Entertainment, respectively). Britne Oldford (“American…
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Sacramento’s Mexican genealogists trace their roots to Aztec empire The Sacramento Bee Sacramento, California 2016-04-10 Stephen Magagnini Highlights Mexican Americans use Catholic Church records, other documents to map family roots Some trace family history to Aztecs, colonial Mexico Interest in Mexican family histories is growing as Latinos become biggest group in California Maria Cortez dug…