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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For Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews, Whiteness Was a Fragile Identity Long Before Trump Forward 2016-12-06 Sigal Samuel, Opinion Editor Nikki Casey I have lived for 26 years under the illusion that I am unconditionally white…. Recently I have started looking at my face and going, ‘Oh man, do I look too Jewish?’” Sydney Brownstone, the…
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Afro-Latinos: a vision of Houston’s mixed-race future The Houtson Chronicle Houston, Texas 2016-11-19 Olivia P. Tallet, Reporter Afro-Latinos embody Texas’ mixed-race future It happens all the time. At the taco truck, Raul Orlando Edwards placed his fajita order: “Señorita, por favor, póngale la cebolla bien cocida” (“I’d like the onions well-done.”) “Man,” said the African-American…
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Between Two Worlds – A conversation with Rain Pryor Connecticut Jewish Ledger 2016-11-22 Cindy Mindell Rain Pryor was born and raised in Los Angeles, the daughter of comedian Richard Pryor and Shelley Bonis (later changed to Bonus), a Jewish go-go dancer. After her parents divorced, Pryor spent time with both grandmothers and in both cultures, forging…
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Award-winning author Danzy Senna speaks at The University of Toledo The Independent Collegian: Serving the University of Toledo Community Since 1919. Toledo, Ohio 2016-11-08 Meg Perry, Staff Reporter Savannah Joslin / IC Award-winning author Danzy Senna visited the University of Toledo to read from her memoir Where Did You Sleep Last Night? as well as…
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Artist Explodes Racial Stereotypes In Shape-Shifting Photographs The Huffington Post 2016-10-20 Priscilla Frank, Arts & Culture Writer Shulamit Nazarian “My experience as a person of color is different than others’. I have something to say.” Artist Genevieve Gaignard grew up in the town of Orange, Massachusetts. Her mother was white, her father black ― one…
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Would-Be Bridegroom Takes Oath He Is Negro The San Francisco Call Volume 104, Number 70 (1908-08-09) Page 31, Column 4 (Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection) Cannot Get License to Wed Mulatto Until He Proves His Race ST. LOUIS, Aug. 8.— “You can’t get a marriage license here,” said Leon G. Smith of East St. Louis…
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Trevor Noah on Growing Up in South Africa Under Apartheid Literary Hub 2016-12-02 Trevor Noah “Where most children are proof of their parents’ love, I was the proof of their criminality.” When the doctors pulled me out there was an awkward moment where they said, “Huh. That’s a very light-skinned baby.” A quick scan of…
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Seminar: Ideals of Miscegenation: Ethnicity, Sexuality, and the Chinese Ideology of “Region” University of Sydney Old Teachers College Room 310 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2016-12-05, 14:00-15:30 AEDT (Local Time) Ha Guangtian, Postdoctoral Research Fellow SOAS China Institute, London, United Kingdom While the word “miscegenation” normally carries a strongly negative connotation in the history of…
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A young playwright’s quest to ask difficult questions about race, class and gender The Los Angeles Times 2016-12-02 Margaret Gray Leah Nanako Winkler’s new play “Kentucky” is a comedy about a Japanese American woman raised in the South. Like her protagonist Hiro, Winkler is half-Japanese and grew up in Kentucky. Like Hiro, she left for New York…