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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My Soul Has Found Its Home Jews of Colour Canada: Building community through identity and faith 2016-07-11 Shirley Gindler-Price Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Out of the 95,000 US Occupation babies born in Germany shortly after WWII, there were approximately 5000 of us, post WWII Afro-German children, so-called Negro mulatto babies, better known as German ‘Brown Babies.’…
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Biracial Afro-Germans search for their identity in a country where many think that to be German is to be white.
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Lost kin University of Chicago Magazine May/June 2015 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University Excerpt from A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs, published by Harvard University Press. Copyright © 2014 by Allyson Hobbs. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Going as white” permanently created confusion…
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Commodification of the Black Body, Sexual Objectification and Social Hierarchies during Slavery The Earlham Historical Journal: An Undergraduate Journal of Historical Inquiry Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana Volume VII: Issue II (Spring 2015) pages 21-43 Iman Cooper The horror of the institution of slavery during the late eighteenth century was not that it displaced millions of…
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Indian, African-Guyanese numbers continue to decline, census finds Stabroek News Georgetown, Guyana 2016-07-19 Staff Writer – mixed race, Amerindian populations still growing Although the country’s two largest ethnic groups, East Indian and African-Guyanese, continued to decline in their numbers between 2002 and 2012, the drop was offset by continued growth in the mixed race and…
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Crucifying the White Savior (Film) Shadow and Act 2016-06-29 Andre Seewood We no longer have to forgive them, for they know exactly what they are doing. The new film by Gary Ross, “The Free State of Jones” is uncontestably a White savior film. Laid bare, “The Free State of Jones” is a simplistically constructed tale…
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“Daddy, I wish there weren’t any Black people.” Medium 2016-05-05 Abe Lateiner Taking a deep breath, I respond to my daughter with a wish of my own. I’ve begun to see that it’s not about having the “right” answers when kids ask about race. Don’t get me wrong: I think there are better and worse…
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FACING FORWARD: A Panel Discussion on Mixed-Race/Ethnic Japanese Americans and Community Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago 4427 N. Clark Street Chicago, Illinois 60640 2016-07-19, 18:30-20:00 CDT (Local Time) The Japanese American Service Committee Legacy Center Presents A “Memories of Now” Seminar Series Presentation Co-sponsored by the Chicago Japanese American Historical Society (CJAHS) and the…