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: July 2016
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Ranger’s voice spans East Bay history San Francisco Chronicle 2010-01-31 Lee Hildebrand, Special to The Chronicle Betty Reid Soskin is a “phenomenal woman,” to borrow the title of a famous poem by Maya Angelou. In her 88 years, Betty has been a shipyard worker, proprietor of a record store, housewife and mother of four, singer…
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Coin given to US’s oldest park ranger by Barack Obama stolen in home invasion The Guardian 2016-06-30 Sam Levin Ranger Betty Soskin holds a photo of herself has a young woman. Photograph: Alamy The White House is sending a replacement coin to 94-year-old Betty Soskin, who says she hopes she can recover the original from…
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In this connection the language of Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in the case of Philadelphia & West Chester Railway Company vs. Miles, 93 American Dec., 747, is well worth considering. It is as applicable to the Chinese and the Japanese as it is to the negro: “The danger to the peace engendered by the feeling…
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The 2020 Census and the Re-Indigenization of America Truthout 2016-06-26 Roberto Rodriguez Mexican American & Raza Studies Department University of Arizona As the 2020 US census looms, this arcane ritual will once again result in the painting of a false picture of the demographic makeup of the United States. While the nation has been getting…
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Babies Of Color Are Now The Majority, Census Says National Public Radio 2016-07-01 Kendra Yoshinaga Today’s generation of schoolchildren looks much different than one just a few decades ago. Nonwhites are expected to become the majority of the nation’s children by 2020, as our colleague Bill Chappell reported last year. This is now the reality…
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The Agonizing Collision Of Love And Slavery In ‘Thomas Jefferson’ Book Reviews National Public Radio 2016-04-06 Jean Zimmerman Did Thomas Jefferson dream of his enslaved concubine, Sally Hemings? No one knows. Jefferson himself never wrote a word about his constant companion of almost 40 years. But author Stephen O’Connor gives us a brave and wondrous…
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Africa Writes Returns to London London Live 2016-07-01 Reya El-Salahi, Presenter The UK’s biggest festival celebrating contemporary African literature returns to the capital today. The fifth annual Africa Writes event features award-winning authors, book launches and panel discussions at The British Library. Sheila Ruiz from the Royal African Society says the event aims to make…
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Afro-Mexicans still struggle for recognition in Mexico The Seattle Globalist 2016-06-22 Mayela Sánchez, Senior Reporter, Country Coordinator Adriana Alcázar González, Reporter María Gorge, Reporter Luz María Martínez Montiel, 81, shown at home in Cuernavaca, the capital of Morelos state in central Mexico, is a specialist in African languages and culture. She works to promote the…