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: December 2018
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Passing for White in THE GREAT GATSBY: A Spectroscopic Analysis of Jordan Baker The Explicator Volume 76, 2018 – Issue 3 Published online: 2018-11-27 DOI: 10.1080/00144940.2018.1489769 Tom Phillips New York, New York “Jordan’s fingers, powdered white over their tan, rested for a moment in mine.” Early in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, narrator Nick…
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Court declares one must “look like an African descendant in the eyes of the average man” to qualify for affirmative action, rejecting another case of a white student “passing” for black
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Often, I find that the Japanese mother is happy to know that their “American” child is interested in Japanese-ness. I do know a few mothers who also became angry with their children for being interested in finding their Japanese roots.
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DNA, Race, and Native Rights
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Spanning four generations of a mixed-race family, Mostly White is a powerful tale of inter-generational trauma and the healing brought by wildness, music, and the resilience of women.
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In her initial email to me, Karen surprised me with her excitement and candor — neither of which I was expecting from the woman whom I had gently accused of being the descendant of the man who owned my ancestors…