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: October 2016
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Creating the Ideal Mexican: 20th and 21st Century Racial and National Identity Discourses in Oaxaca University of Massachusetts, Amherst September 2015 235 pages Savannah N. Carroll Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy This investigation intends to uncover…
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In “Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico,” an ambitious rereading of colonial history, Robert C. Schwaller proposes using the Spanish term géneros de gente (types or categories of people) as part of a more nuanced perspective on what these categories of difference meant and how they evolved. His work revises our understanding of racial…
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An Intimate Look at Race: Growing Up Biracial in a Racially Torn World Wellesley Centers for Women Book Reading \ Panel \ Conversation with Author Sil Lai Abrams Clapp Library, Lecture Room Wellesley College 106 Central Street Wellesley, Massachusetts Tuesday, 2016-10-25, 16:30-17:00 EST (Local Time) Presenters: Author Sil Lai Abrams with Linda Charmaraman, Ph.D., Layli…
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Today, seeing Black footballers playing the game at the very highest level is considered very normal. This, certainly, was not the case one hundred and forty years ago, and this is what makes the story of Andrew Watson so remarkable.
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This mixed race family didn’t ‘see color.’ Then police said a white supremacist killed their son The Oregonian 2016-10-16 Casey Parks A banner hanging above the couch proclaims it a house divided. “But only when it comes to football,” Natasha Bruce said. When it came to race, the old wood house in Vancouver, Wash. was…
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DNA tests show fallacy of Jim Crow The Albuquerque Journal 2014-03-21 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Harvard University I am filming guest interviews for Season 2 of the genealogy series “Finding Your Roots,” airing on PBS this September. One of…
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Mixed race and mixed reactions Columbia Daily Spectator 2016-10-17 Laura Salgado “But, like, what are you?” It’s a question I’m asked pretty often, both inside and outside of Morningside Heights. You’d think that after almost two decades on this planet I’d finally be able to answer it easily, but you’d be wrong. This seemingly innocent…
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Yom Kippur Haftorah: Black Lives Matter Medium 2016-10-12 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein The opening chapter of a handwritten Book of Esther. source: Wikipedia You shall love people — including Black people — with all your heart I shared this with my synagogue during Yom Kippur 5777 Shacharit services. To grow up Black in America is to know that your humanity is always in…
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This the first of a two part feature on the changing face of the Jewish Community. Read part two here.