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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Why Self-Identifying As Multiracial Is Still New And Not Automatic For Me Swirl Nation Blog 2016-10-12 Sarah Ratliff I grew up in New York City during the 1960s and 70s. Although I grew up in a very racially, ethnically and culturally diverse area—which included several interracial families—it wasn’t the norm to raise kids in that…
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WHEN she was growing up in County Tipperary in the 1960s, Lorraine Maher (pictured) met no other black people and on the few occasions they came into her midst she would avoid them.
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One man’s quest to preserve the haunting black history of Pocahontas Island The Washington Post 2016-09-26 Gregory S. Schneider POCAHONTAS ISLAND, Va. — He roams from house to house along the quiet streets of this little neighborhood, giving voice to its history and spirits. The collection of modest homes, tucked between an empty lumber factory…
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Dr. Zebulon Miletsky discusses his journey through the multiple worlds of race and identity as he shares his experiences with researching his own family genealogy, the various “routes” this process led him to and how “tracing your routes” can lead to more than just knowledge about your background–it’s about how we treat one another along…
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How the cinematic act of passing embodied, exacerbated, and sometimes alleviated American fears
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Weird things come with being mixed-race. These include, but are not limited to: no one ever guessing your heritage correctly, random stereotypes you wouldn’t expect, a fusion of your parents’ cultures, and questions of “Wait, where did your parents meet?”
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‘We were the unspoken story of Ireland’ BBC News 2016-10-13 The #IamIrish exhibition in north London explores what it means to be mixed race and Irish. Watch the video (00:02:21) here.
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An interview with hip hop artist Akala Vlad TV 2016-06-10 Vladimir Lyubovny (DJ Vlad), Host U.K. artist Akala stopped by the Vlad Couch to discuss a plethora of topics surrounding the history of the impact of slavery throughout the world, Black culture, hip hop’s influence across the world, and what it means to be mixed-race…
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Being “Dual Heritage” In Modern Britain HC At Exeter Cornwall 2016-10-11 Stacey Harris, 2nd year Environmental Science Student Solihull, West Midlands As many of you may be aware, October is Black History Month, which acts as a platform for education, reflection and a celebration of the trials and triumphs of African and Caribbean communities throughout…
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Paisley Rekdal Wins the 2016 AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction University of Georgia Press 2016-10-05 Paisley Rekdal (photo credit: Austen Diamond) Congratulations to Paisley Rekdal for winning this year’s Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction with her work The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam.…