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 10, 2016
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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…
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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…