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: September 2017
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Emancipation Day based on story of Grady’s father who kept black heritage secret for 50 years
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How far would a son go to belong? And how far would a father go to protect him?
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Natasha Marshall gives an impassioned performance in a semi-autobiographical show, writes Veronica Lee
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I was the only girl on my high school’s football team — but I can no longer support the sport.
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Thanks to my parents transplanting me often from one ethnic mix to another, I’ve become something of a code-switching connoisseur.
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, and author Margot Lee Shetterly are among the dignitaries honoring Katherine Johnson, former NASA employee and central character of the book and movie Hidden Figures, at 1 p.m. Sept. 22 at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
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Southern civility turns savage when Hank Whitaker’s dying words reveal the unimaginable. No one—not his socialite wife, Maggie, or young son, Lance—ever suspected the successful businessman, husband, and father they knew and loved was a black man passing for white.
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Mixed-race artists use hybrid experience as creative spring-board
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Definitive biography of a key figure in the civil rights and women’s movements.