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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“I’m mixed race. I identify as a black woman from Ireland, who is quite pale,” she laughs. “The only heritage I ever had was Irish heritage.” [Lorraine] Maher is aware of her other ancestry, “but it is not important at the moment for me”, she says… Anthea McTeirnan, “‘Growing up in Ireland I was the…
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Jane Doe v. State of Louisiana (1985) Justice Ward delivered the opinion of the Court. This appeal is brought by several members of the Guillory family, children and grandchildren of Simea Fretty and Dominique Guillory, both deceased. Six of the appellants, Marie Bernice Guillory Rougeau, Armet Guillory Fontenot, Lucy Elizabeth Guillory Parker, Suzy Elizabeth Rita…
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Weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, Same Family, Different Colors explores the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States.
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GONS-FA16.03 | Transcending Race GONS – Gonson Society Lecture Series The Cambridge Center for Adult Education 42 Brattle Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 2016-10-12, 11:00 EDT (Local Time) Carlos Hoyt Based on Carlos Hoyt’s recently published book, The Arc of a Bad Idea: Understanding and Transcending Race, will provide a penetrating, provocative, and promising analysis and…
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Who Are We, Really? View from Rue Saint-Georges The American Scholar 2016-09-21 Thomas Chatterton Williams Detail from The Redemption of Ham by Modesto Brocos y Gómez (1895) Lately, as I’ve been working on my second book, a meditation on the absurdity of sorting human beings into metaphorical color categories, I’ve been thinking a lot about…
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Both black and white Brazilians have long considered “whiteness” something that can be striven towards. In 1912 João Baptista de Lacerda, a medic and advocate of “whitening” Brazil by encouraging European immigration, predicted that by 2012 the country would be 80% white, 3% mixed and 17% Amerindian; there would be no blacks. As Luciana Alves,…
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Racial awareness lacks “One Drop of Love” The Current St. Petersburg, Florida 2016-10-06 Mereysa Taylor, Co-Opinion Editor Cox DiGiovanni artfully narrates her own education about being mixed race in America in efforts to start a larger national dialogue. photo by Jeff Lorch Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni graced Eckerd with her one-woman performance about how race was…
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Jackie Kay announces makar’s tour of all the Scottish islands The Guardian 2016-10-07 Libby Brooks, Scotland Correspondent The poet has revealed plans for ‘an odyssey’ that will take in overlooked parts of Scotland and form the basis of a long poem about the country As the UK lurches towards xenophobia, it is a writer’s responsibility…