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: May 2017
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Editor’s Note: In the inaugural edition of our Weekend Reading series, journalist David Pastor reviews new work on the legendary black scholar Arturo Alfonso Schomburg that helps reinstate his Puerto Rican identity.
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The modern-day issues of “racial passing” and “identity,” dominated the April 20 SAS research seminar presented by Dr. Agatha Ukata and Dr. Brian Reed of the English & Literature department.
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I’m raising my sons to be proud of their blackness, writes John Vercher. But they’ll benefit from their lighter skin.
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Albanez: Exploring my mixed-race identity at NU has been invaluable experience The Daily Northwestern 2017-05-09 Andrea Albanez, Op-Ed Contributor In 2011, The New York Times published an article about how many young Americans were no longer defining themselves as one single race, but rather beginning to cast themselves under multiple races or calling themselves “mixed-race.”…
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I had to buy my identity for $220 a pop.
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What Passing emphasizes in this discussion is the possibility that, in addition to biological and societal influences, one’s mind state is a crucial ingredient to one’s racial identity.
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N’jaila Rhee is many things — a writer; a phone sex operator, web cam girl, and former exotic dancer; a nerd; and a self-described “Blasian bitch.”
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Virginia Matsuoka was 10 years old when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
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However, hidden from these historical bonds lies a complex weave of direct blood descendants, of abandoned children sired by some members of the US Military during their service at the US bases in the Philippines, a large legion of fatherless men and women who possess multi-ethnicity looks born to single mothers, remains in search of…
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Black/white Americans essentially fall into two camps. The first are those who quickly began searching for a higher truth allowing them to make sense of the madness behind lumping human beings into separate and distinct racial groupings. They fundamentally agree with Toomer. The second faction views its European ancestry and the attendant colonialist history as…