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: November 2017
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Being mixed-race is a blessing in disguise.
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An excerpt from ‘We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America.’ By Marc Fitten
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William Gilliland, an associate biology professor at Depaul University, explained that “DNA tests for ethnicity are entertainment value only,” noting that while DNA tests can connect you to family members, there is no solid DNA marker or “diagnostic nucleotide” for race.
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For interracial Black and white families, honest discussions about racism need to be had in a white supremacist world.
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A Chicago-area woman wanted to test the accuracy of the popular DNA tests that are supposed to find your family history, but when she mailed away her DNA, the results she got were vastly different from each other.
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In “Perishing Heathens” Julius H. Rubin tells the stories of missionary men and women who between 1800 and 1830 responded to the call to save Native peoples through missions, especially the Osages in the Arkansas Territory, Cherokees in Tennessee and Georgia, and Ojibwe peoples in the Michigan Territory. Rubin also recounts the lives of Native…
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Tanya Katerí Hernández writes: The presence of fluid mixed-race racial identities within allegations of employment discrimination leads some legal commentators to conclude that civil rights laws are in urgent need of reform.
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Sarah Howe, TIDE Writer in Residence, and TS Eliot Prize-winning author of “Loop of Jade” will read with University of Liverpool’s Colm Toibin Fellow in Creative Writing, the novelist Anthony Joseph.
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The books interview: the bestselling US author on family, fitting in and giving a voice to those without power in her new book, “Little Fires Everywhere”