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: November 2016
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Terry and Judy – A Mixed Race Journey The listening project: It’s surprising what you hear when you listen BBC Radio 4 2016-11-23, 10:55Z Fi Glover, Presenter Marya Burgess, Producer Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a mixed race couple who met at a time when their relationship was a lot more unusual than it…
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This week, Britain’s ITV showed a programme on Mary Seacole entitled “In the Shadow of Mary Seacole.” In some ways, the programme could have been titled, “Mary Seacole in the Shadow of British Racism.” Many people who initially celebrated the fact that ITV was telling the story of the woman labeled “The Greatest Black Briton”…
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Two halves, one American whole The Columbia Spectator 2016-11-16 Luciana Siracusano Halfie. That’s the endearing term I use to explain my ethnic and cultural heritage when people don’t know what to make of my facial features. My father is a third-generation Italian-Irish-American, and my mother is Korean and immigrated here in her 20s, so I’m…
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Zadie Smith’s Rhythmic Play in Shadow and Light Los Angeles Review of Books 2016-11-17 Walton Muyumba, Associate Professor Assistant Director of Creative Writing Indiana University Zadie Smith, Swing Time (New York: Penguin Press, 2016). I FINISHED READING SWING TIME, Zadie Smith’s new novel, her fifth, around the time the Swedish Academy announced that Bob Dylan…
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White Model Apologizes After Her Photo Shows Up On Blackhair Magazine The Huffington Post 2016-11-21 Zeba Blay “I’m very sorry this cover was taken away from a black woman,” she wrote. Blackhair magazine had some explaining to do after mistakenly featuring a white model rocking afro-textured hair on the cover of its latest issue. The publication, known…
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“Please select one”: Growing up with a multiracial identity The Seattle Globalist 2016-11-31 Jaya Duckworth, Senior Garfield High School, Seattle, Washington Jaya Duckworth (second from right) and friends hold signs showing pride in multiracial identities at a school district-wide walkout in protest of the election of Donald Trump. (Photo courtesy Jaya Duckworth.) Race: Please select…
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2 Tone legend Pauline Black to get honorary degree from Coventry University The Coventry Telegraph 2016-11-21 Catherine Lillington Pauline Black “It’s really important women don’t reach the menopause and go away and knit” Ska and 2 Tone legend Pauline Black is being honoured by Coventry University for her support of the city’s music scene. The…
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An Unsung Hero in the Story of Interracial Marriage The New Yorker 2016-11-17 David Muto, Copy Editor/Senior Web Producer Bill and Carol Muto on their wedding day, eight years after the U.S. Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, struck down interracial-marriage bans. COURTESY BILL AND CAROL MUTO At my parents’ wedding, in Blacksburg, Virginia, my…