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: May 2016
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Who gets to be Native American? Fusion 2016-03-11 Anna Pulley “Inhumane.” “Dishonorable.” “Genocide.” These were just a few of the dozens of Sharpied comments written on the hands of indigenous activists recently, as they launched a grassroots, social-media movement against tribal disenrollment, which is when a tribal government throws out its own members. The campaign,…
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The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed-Race Family CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2016-04-06 222 pages ISBN-13: 978-1522998952 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches Dmae Roberts, Writer, Producer, Media and Theatre Artist The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed-Race Family traces four decades of what it means to be a mixed-race adult who sometimes…
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Sarah A. Chavez, a mestiza born and raised in the California Central Valley, is the author of the chapbook All Day, Talking (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). She holds a Ph.D. in English with a focus in poetry and Ethnic Studies from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln.
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How My Jewish and Black Grandmothers Found Bernie Jewschool: Progressive Jews & Views 2016-04-30 Jason Salmon Photo above: Jason Salmon (center) and members of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) at an action in New York City for police accountability. Photo courtesy JFREJ. Both of my grandmothers, one a Black woman and the other…
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Marvin Rees’s triumph as mayor defies Bristol’s racist past The Guardian 2016-05-08 Simon Woolley Source: Marvin Rees The descendant of enslaved Africans is now running a former slave city. His symbolic victory gives hope – and should not be forgotten While much has been said, rightly so, about a Muslim now leading London, we must…
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Dying to Be Black: White-to-Black Racial Passing in Chesnutt’s “Mars Jeems’s Nightmare,” Griffin’s Black Like Me, and Van Peebles’s Watermelon Man Prospects Volume 28 / October 2004 pages 519-542 DOI: 10.1017/S0361233300001599 Baz Dreisinger, Associate Professor of English John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York Is racial passing passé? Not according to…
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Long Time Passing Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2009-01-23 Amy Finnerty Baz Dreisinger, Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008). How black is Eminem? How white is our president? We can’t help asking these awkward questions as we digest “Near Black,” by Baz Dreisinger. A freelance journalist…
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The Experiences of Mixed-Race Students In An Urban Area University of Nebraska, Lincoln 2012 189 pages ISBN: 9781267282132 Germaine W. Huber University of Nebraska, Lincoln Mixed-race children are the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population, and it is essential that educators are aware of the unique experiences of this student population. The purpose of…
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‘Ladivine,’ by Marie NDiaye Book Review The New York Times 2016-05-05 Patrick McGrath LADIVINE By Marie NDiaye Translated by Jordan Stump 276 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $26.95. Marie NDiaye is the author of more than a dozen plays and works of fiction. Currently living in Berlin, having left France in 2009, by her own account…