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: June 2020
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“Black Tommies” is the first book entirely dedicated to the part played by soldiers of African descent in the British regular army during the First World War.
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To be a good mom to my kids, I must be their fiercest advocate at all times, because the world won’t be.
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Comfortable in My Own Skin Sojourners January 2020 Maika Llaneza New Orleans, Louisiana My theology says brown skin is beautiful, but my Pinterest page said otherwise. MY EXPERIENCE BEING color-shamed began when I was 5 years old and still living in the Philippines. My mom and aunts often told me that I could be mistaken…
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This article focuses on the experiences of women of African descent who were made captives (and, in some cases, recaptives) after the 1683 buccaneer raid on Veracruz,
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“I got plenty of African American friends — I’ve known ’em since I was 14,” said [Lonnie] Miles, adding that he learned to say ‘African American’ out of respect. “They know if they need anything, all they have to do is ask me. I have supper with them, and they have supper with me too.…
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[Florence] Price and her music were well received in Chicago. The great contralto Marian Anderson closed her legendary 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert with a piece arranged by Price. Still, she scraped to make ends meet, writing pop tunes and accompanying silent films. In 1943, she sent a letter to Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston…
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The first book-length sounding of the major contributions of the first black American novelist to sell more than a million copies