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 2019
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Watch the interview and find out how Cathy embraces her heritage culture through family and a semester of study abroad, why Taiwan is an island obsessed with food (good food!), what makes Taiwanese cooking unique, ingredients needed for making a Taiwanese dish, her hapa/mixed-race experience growing up and much more.
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Today, this hyper-sexualization and fetishization of mixed race people has unfortunately become the norm.
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“Mixed” reactions highlight mixed-race issues in the US and the UK.
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A schoolboy who shot two schoolmates dead on his 16th birthday has been named as Nathaniel Berhow.
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Parma native and award winning author, Gail Lukasik discovered in 1995 that her mother had kept a deep family secret from her. Her mother was half-black, but was passing as a white woman, and begged Gail not to reveal her true identity. Lukasik will be speaking about her family’s story, which she turned into a…
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“The Latinos that are not dark-skinned don’t call themselves White Latinos or Caucasian Latinos. I know that might sound controversial,” she admitted.
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Rhonda Fils-Aimé was adopted by a white family as a baby, and her biological father, Philippe, had no idea
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While a lot of progress has been made since then, the way that society perceives mixed-race people still needs to be explored. “Mixed-ish” goes back to basics and uses comedy as a tool to discuss it.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams’s argument against race.