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: June 7, 2016
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Despite such stark inequality, black and indigenous populations have not, until recently, mobilized along racial and ethnic lines for reform. For one thing, the idealization of mixed blood might have made minorities with lighter skin less willing to ally with their darker counterparts. Rather than fight for indigenous rights, for example, it was preferable for…
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A dark-skinned, curly-headed person who identifies as African American may, indeed, have much in his or her history and upbringing to justify that identification. But he or she may also have a white grandparent and several Cherokee ancestors. Thus, returning to the example of glaucoma, it is more important to know a patient’s family history…
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Does Race Matter in Latin America? Foreign Affairs Volume 94, Number 2 (March/April 2015) Deborah J. Yashar, Professor of Politics and International Affairs Princeton University In 1992, the Nobel Committee awarded its Peace Prize to Rigoberta Menchú Tum, the daughter of poor Guatemalan peasants, for her work promoting indigenous rights. Her prize, momentous in its…
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Mixed race author on the struggle of having to ‘pick a side’ The Voice 2016-06-05 Davina Hamilton, Entertainment Editor LIFETIME OF LOVE: Gus and sister Chi-chi with their parents Michael and Margaret Author Gus Nwanokwu on growing up with a Nigerian father and Irish mother in 1960s Britain THE PRESSURE to ‘pick a side’, the…
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Black Shamrocks: Accommodation Available – No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2016-03-24 482 pages 15.2 x 2.8 x 22.9 cm Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1523490912 Gus Michael Nwanokwu While many academics and social scientists have examined the psychological and societal implications of growing up as a mixed-race person, few works exist that chronicle…
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“Passing” meets “The House of Mirth: in this “utterly captivating” (Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of “The Kitchen House”) historical novel based on the true story of Anita Hemmings, the first black student to attend Vassar, who successfully passed as white—until she let herself grow too attached to the wrong person.
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Bridging Asian and Asian American Studies through Critical Mixed Race UCLA International Institute Asia Institute 2016-05-25 Samantha Fletcher (UCLA 2016) Professor Emma Teng of MIT recently examined mixed-race identities in the U.S., China and Hong Kong as part of the Taiwan Studies Lecture Series of the Asia Institute. UCLA International Institute, May 25, 2016 —…