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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Talking the Talk: Linguistic Passing in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 42, Number 2, Summer 2017 pages 156-176 Melissa Dennihy, Assistant Professor of English Queensborough Community College, City University of New York, Bayside, New York Danzy Senna’s 1998 novel Caucasia, set in 1970s New England, follows the breakup of the…
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Richard Theodore Greener (1844–1922) was a renowned black activist and scholar. In 1870, he was the first black graduate of Harvard College.
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Two African American sisters grow up in racially charged 1960s Georgia, but one is born with fair skin. And when schools integrate in their small town, she decides to change her destiny – by passing for white.
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But what I do know is what it is like to be a mixed race kid trying to figure out where to belong in this world and trying to figure it out with no guidance.
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The editor in chief has taken on a seemingly impossible task: reinventing the glossy magazine for a hyperempathetic generation.
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“To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi” goes a line often attributed to William Faulkner. More than half a century later, Jesmyn Ward may be the newest bard of global wisdom.