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: December 2016
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Some Obamaphiles bristle at the idea that he should be thought of principally as a black president—assessed in a segregated category of one. Yet race has been essential to his career, as well as to his finest oratory. The emergency remarks he made, in 2008, after the circulation of radical comments by his pastor, Jeremiah…
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Hannah Lowe’s latest collection of poetry “Chan” (Bloodaxe, 2016) revisits the characters and stories from her first collection, “Chick” (Bloodaxe, 2013), which won the Michaels Murphy memorial Award for Best First Collection, and was short-listed for the Forward, Aldeburgh and Seamus Heaney Best First Collection Prizes.
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Still ‘Krazy’ after all these years: A life of George Herriman, pioneering comic writer and N.O. exile The New Orleans Advocate 2016-12-05 Susan Larson, Host, The Reading Life WWNO-FM, New Orleans George Herriman, from Michael Tisserand’s Krazy Kat bio of George Herriman For Michael Tisserand, as for most of us, the love of comics came…
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Call For Papers: Spaniards, Natives, Africans, and Gypsies: Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados in Music, Song, and Dance 2016-10-16 K. Meira Goldberg, Visiting Research Scholar Foundation for Iberian Music The Graduate Center The City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10016 Prof. Walter Clark, Director The Center for Iberian and Latin…
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Leona Amosah, the Founder of SWIRL, Talks Diversity and Identity Study Breaks 2016-12-28 Molly Flynn University of North Carolina, Charlotte Celebrating Students with Interracial Legacies (SWIRL) Amosah, a high-achieving senior at UNC Chapel Hill, created the organization to provide a community for students with multiracial and mixed-race identities. While many college students occupy their time…
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Descendants Of Native American Slaves In New Mexico Emerge From Obscurity All Things Considered National Public Radio 2016-12-29 John Burnett, Southwest Correspondent, National Desk Santo Tomas Catholic church in Abiquiu, N.M., is the site of an annual saint’s day celebration in late November that includes cultural elements of the genizaros, the descendants of Native American…