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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‘War Brides of Japan’ To Take Focus in New Documentary NBC News 2016-08-10 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Journalist and filmmaker Yayoi Lena Winfrey is looking for more Japanese “war brides” to interview as she completes the filming for her feature-length documentary film, “War Brides of Japan.” With many of these women in their mid-80s, Winfrey said…
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Raising My Black Son Brian, Child: the magazine for thinking mothers 2016-08-09 Suanne Schafer Twenty years ago, I adopted an interracial child—I’ll call him M—thinking a mother’s love could overcome all barriers, even racial ones. Twenty years later, I’m not sure I did my son any favors. I’m a white mom trying to figure out…
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The Effects of School Desegregation on Mixed-Race Births The National Bureau of Economic Research NBER Working Paper No. 22480 Issued in August 2016 47 pages DOI: 10.3386/w22480 Nora Gordon, Associate Professor McCourt School of Public Policy Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Sarah Reber, Associate Professor of Public Policy Luskin School of Public Affairs University of California, Los…
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‘Blasian Narratives’ struggles with the question: Black enough? Asian enough? Kore Asian Media 2016-08-16 Tae Hong “Blasian Narratives” performs inside Stanford Theatre. (Harrison Troung/Courtesy photo) Teaching third graders in an underserved area of Brooklyn, Cenisa Gavin often looks out at her mostly black and Latino students and is reminded of the failings of her own…
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The face of change: Census racial categories aren’t so black and white The Dallas Morning News 2016-08-19 Jill Cowan, Staff Writer Gloria Fortner, 13, says she values all of the influences of her parentage. Her father, Bruce Fortner, is a black pastor, and her mother, Florencia Velasco Fortner, is a Mexican immigrant who heads a…
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Our Diversity Isn’t Looking Very Diverse Affinity Magazine 2016-08-20 Etienne Rodriguez Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Look alive, True Believers, if the rumors are to be believed, then Zendaya is playing the role of Mary Jane Watson in the upcoming Spider-Man movie. This is the latest in a series of black women being…
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My Multiracial Identity Isn’t A Party Trick The Establishment 2016-06-16 Natasha Diaz We sat in a diner at 4 a.m. with a stack of chocolate chip pancakes and chicken fingers between us, the only meal that made sense at that time of night. After a while, the food soaked up enough of the alcohol that…
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Celebrating Japan’s multicultural Olympians The Japan Times 2016-08-17 Naomi Schanen, Staff Writer Meet the athletes flying the flag and challenging traditional views of what it is to be Japanese Japan and Brazil’s ties go back to the early 20th century, when the first Japanese immigrants arrived as farmers in the South American country. Brazil is…