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 2020
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Brit Bennett – Colorism & Racial Passing in “The Vanishing Half” | The Daily Social Distancing Show The Daily Show with Trevor Noah 2020-12-03 Brit Bennett talks about exploring the effects of colorism in Black communities and the ability to pass as white in her new novel “The Vanishing Half.” Watch the interview here.
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In “Relative Races,” Brigitte Fielder presents an alternative theory of how race is ascribed.
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In three segments, we’re going to have a conversation about how Afro-Latinx folks often get left out of national discussions about Blackness and, in particular, the Black Lives Matter movement.
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We concluded the semester with Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece’s “Incognegro,” a graphic novel that breaks down constructs of race and highlights the ways that society, especially those who want to maintain power, constructs one’s identity.
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In the middle of the last century, thousands of students from African countries were studying at Irish universities. Some had children outside marriage, who were then placed in one of Ireland’s notorious mother and baby homes. Today these children, now adults, are searching for their families.