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: June 2016
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Texas slave passes as Mexican millionaire San Antonio Express-News San Antonio, Texas 2016-06-11 Joe O’Connell Former slave passes as Mexican millionaire Historian Karl Jacoby was driving near the Texas-Mexico border when he was stopped by the U.S. Border Patrol, the agency charged with keeping Mexicans out of the United States. He explained, to their dismay,…
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Starting in the late 1940’s, and continuing through to the end of the ‘50’s, Hollywood seemed to be obsessed with the concept of “passing” –light skinned black people passing for white. Though it wasn’t new, of course, somehow it caught Tinseltown’s attention and a slew of films were made, almost all them dealing with women in particular, who…
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One man’s quest for Loving Day, a holiday for multiracial Americans The Los Angeles Times 2016-06-10 Jaweed Kaleem Ken Tanabe founded Loving Day in 2004, and leads celebrations and workshops across the U.S. on being multiracial. (Pearl Shavzin-Dremeaux) Forty-nine years ago on June 12, the Supreme Court struck down laws in 16 states that banned…
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Soledad O’Brien: Seek Out the Curious and the Fastidious Corner Office The New York Times 2016-06-10 Adam Bryant This interview with Soledad O’Brien, chief executive of the Starfish Media Group, a production company, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What were your early years like? A. I grew up on Long Island, in…
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Mugabe raps Chinese men over mixed race babies Bulawayo24 2016-06-11 Thobekile Zhou Chinese men who are working on various projects in Zimbabwe have come under attack for not bringing along their wives. President Robert Mugabe claimed that this could lead them to prey on local girls… …He said the Chinese men end up leaving a…
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Juxtaposed, “Mexican Chef” and “Black Stars” speak volumes about the ongoing evolution of [Xenia] Rubios’ identity. While she identifies as Afro-Latina, she tells Colorlines that she does not identify as Black. “My family history is complicated, and I still don’t fully know the extent of it,” she says after describing her Black maternal great grandmother,…
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I’m Filipino too: Filipino-ness and Multiraciality gal-dem 2016-06-01 Amena Conopio-Ziard When I first participated in an online Austronesian community group, a member questioned me, in Tagalog, if I was Filipino. He thought by messaging me in Tagalog he could cleverly catch me out in an autonomous space he believed I shouldn’t be in… Read the…
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On her funky second album, “Black Terry Cat,” the genre-bender explores identity, police violence and the hidden labor of Latino/a restaurant workers.
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On Her Second Album, Xenia Rubinos Finds a New Language to Talk About Latinidad Remezcla 2016-06-01 Isabelia Herrera At a time when the political utility of the Afro-Latino label is as urgent as ever, it’s easy to forget that the journey to embrace that identity isn’t always immediate. Before recording her sophomore album Black Terry…