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: August 2016
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Who Gets To Be ‘Hapa’? Code Switch: Race and Identity, Remixed National Public Radio 2016-08-08 Akemi Johnson Sunset in Waikiki: Tourists sipping mai tais crowded the beachside hotel bar. When the server spotted my friend and me, he seemed to relax. “Ah,” he said, smiling. “Two hapa girls.” He asked if we were from Hawaii.…
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The analysis of these examples from Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico reveals how crucial the nation is as a frame for understanding the way racialized concepts get reiterated and reworked in genomic science, in ways that make race both disappear and reappear. Public health, multiculturalism, and forensics are all political and policy domains that directly invoke…
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NBA Star Amar’e Stoudemire Is Moving to Israel — Because He’s a Hebrew Israelite Forward 2016-08-01 Sam Kestenbaum, Staff Writer This week, basketball star Amar’e Stoudemire ended a celebrated 14-year career with the NBA. The six-time All-Star spent most of his career with the Phoenix Suns and the New York Knicks, before finishing with the…
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Passing: A Bi-Racial Perspective On Racial Inequality In America Cappuccino Queen 2014-12-03 Hera McLeod In the past few years, it seems like topic of race has gotten to a boiling point many times. Particularly, it seems, as it relates to the American Justice System. When Trayvon Martin was gunned down in February of 2012, I…