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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Race In The Northwest: Hood River Man Learns His Family’s Surprising Truth Oregon Public Broadcasting 2016-12-07 Anna Griffin, News Director Hood River writer and cidermaker John Metta. Anna Griffin/OPB Hood River, Oregon—John Metta grew up thinking of himself as mixed race: His mother was white. His father’s side of the family proudly proclaimed themselves a blend of…
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How Jews Became White Folks — and May Become Nonwhite Under Trump Forward 2016-12-06 Karen Brodkin, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles Decades before I wrote the book “How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America,” I had an eye-opening conversation with my parents. I asked them…
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“Us versus Them” – A Thought on the Complexities of Multiracial Passing Multiracial Media: Voice of the Multiracial Community 2016-12-08 Joanna L. Thompson, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice University of Illinois, Chicago Is this an example of “Multiracial Passing?” Photo credit: YouTube Recently, a post on TheRoot.com discussed the challenges Sofia Richie,…
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Hawkins told Smith that he has three sisters married to white men who do not suspect their wives of having negro blood. “Would-Be Bridegroom Takes Oath He Is Negro,” The San Francisco Call, Volume 104, Number 70 (August 9, 1908). page 31, column 4. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19080809.2.99.
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‘Born a Crime,’ Trevor Noah’s Raw Account of Life Under Apartheid The New York Times 2016-11-28 Michiko Kakutani, Chief Book Critic Trevor Noah, host of “The Daily Show,” in 2015. His memoir provides a harrowing look at life in South Africa under apartheid and then after that era. Credit Chad Batka for The New York…
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“I’m very light, so some people don’t really know that I’m black. I’ve been in situations where people will say something kind of racist and I’ll step in and they’ll be like, ‘Oh, well, you’re light,’” she says, her eyes flashing. “That still doesn’t cut it, buddy. It’s 2016—you better get your shit together before…
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Family Business Complex December 2016/January 2017 Written by Rebecca Haithcoat Photography by Sasha Samsonova Sofia Ritchie Sofia Richie has been known to the world as Lionel Richie’s daughter, Nicole Richie’s half-sister, and Justin Bieber’s BAE. Now, the aspiring model is ready to make her solo debut—Without Losing her Privacy. Sorry—Sofia Richie does not want to…
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Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Ecco (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2016-12-06 192 pages 5.313 in (w) x 8 in (h) x 0.432 in (d) Paperback ISBN: 9780062484154 E-book ISBN: 9780062484161 Kathleen Collins (1942-1988) Foreword by: Elizabeth Alexander Named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year, and named one of the most anticipated books of…
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Lionel Richie’s Daughter Sofia Says People Say Racist Stuff Around Her Not Knowing She’s Black The Root 2016-12-06 Yesha Callahan, Senior Editor Sofia Richie during New York Fashion Week on Feb. 11, 2016 Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images The model spoke about the racism she’s subjected to because people don’t see her as a black woman. Lionel…