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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For Trump, it almost seems that the fact of Obama, the fact of a black president, insulted him personally. The insult intensified when Obama and Seth Meyers publicly humiliated him at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2011. But the bloody heirloom ensures the last laugh. Replacing Obama is not enough—Trump has made the negation…
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We should abandon attempts to save the category of race. There is no good way to make sense of the category from a biological or a social perspective. There are no races, only groups misunderstood as races: racialised groups. Adam Hochman, “Racism is real, race is not: a philosopher’s perspective,” The Conversation, August 31, 2017.…
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In “The Fateful Triangle”—drawn from lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1994—one of the founding figures of cultural studies reflects on the divisive, often deadly consequences of our contemporary politics of identification.
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This article explores Black Twitter’s response to Dolezal’s “outing” as a White woman with particular emphasis on the #AskRachel hashtag, to which users posted a series of questions intended to discern Dolezal’s “true” racial identity.
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The painter’s struggle at the crossroads of artistic expression and social progress
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To be a black woman in 2017 is a lot of things. And none of them are easy.
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Newly discovered works by one of the earliest Asian North American writers.
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Edith Eaton’s Expanding Oeuvre American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism Volume 27, Number 1, 2017 pages 6-10 Mary Chapman, Professor of English University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Since the early 1980s, when S. E. Solberg published a short checklist of twenty-two works of fiction and journalism by Chinese American author…