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 27, 2016
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Race identity for mixed race kids in America The Collegian Stockton, California 2016-04-24 Shellcia Longsworth Being a mixed kid wasn’t easy growing up. My mother is white and Samoan. My father is Belizean. I was born and raised in Tracy. I was one of two black children in my elementary school. I recall having moments…
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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…