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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Piers Morgan shot down after trying to justify comments about ‘racist’ Muhammad Ali during GMB The Daily Mirror London, England 2016-06-06 The host previously tweeted that Ali was responsible for a number of ‘inflammatory’ and ‘racist’ comments Piers Morgan was shot down as he discussed Muhammad Ali during Good Morning Britain. Over the weekend the…
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National Women’s History Museum presents Chinese American Women: A History of Resilience and Resistance National Women’s History Museum 2016-06-08 Joseph, Emily, Mamie, Frank, and Mary Tape. Tape v. Hurley Mary Tape was a biracial Chinese American woman who believed that her daughter, Mamie, should have the same access to education as white children in San…
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Nadia Karizat: Divided into nothing The Michigan Daily 2016-05-18 Nadia Karizat There are moments in my life that have burned me silently and set me up for questioning what I am. I say “what” and not “who” because I know who I am. I am someone who believes that the best moments are spontaneous, that…
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Fractionalized: Stories of Biracial Joy, Pain, Struggle and Triumph Madison 365 Madison, Wisconsin 2016-06-25 Mia Sato, Senior University of Wisconsin, Madison Mixed. Multi. One-half-this and one-quarter-that. Biracial, mixed-race, “two or more races.” In a world obsessed with labels, the pressure to claim oneself as part of a racial group is an inescapable reality for a…
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Nothing is black and white in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s ‘An Octoroon’ The Washington Post 2016-06-06 Peter Marks, Theater critic Jon Hudson Odom, left, as George, Maggie Wilder, center, as Dora and Kathyrn Tkel as Zoe in “An Octoroon.” (Scott Suchman) “Hi, everyone, I’m a black playwright!” the actor Jon Hudson Odom exclaims at the outset of…
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An Octoroon Woolly Mammoth Theater 641 D Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20004 2016-05-30 through 2016-06-26 By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Directed by Nataki Garrett A plantation on the brink of foreclosure. A young gentleman falling for the part-black daughter of the estate’s owner. An evil swindler plotting to buy her for himself. Meanwhile, the slaves are trying…