Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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: June 2017
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Scientists weren’t the first to divide humanity along racial – and racist – lines. But for hundreds of years, racial scientists claimed to provide proof for those racist hierarchies – and some still do.
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Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad.
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Loving v. Virginia: Exploring biracial identity and reality in America 50 years after a landmark civil rights milestone The Conversation 2017-06-07 Caty Borum Chattoo , Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact, American University School of Communication American University, Washington, D.C. Mildred and Richard Loving in 1965. AP Photo Fifty years ago, on June…
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How interracial love and marriage changed history, and may soon alter the landscape of American politics.