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 2021
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Opinion: ‘In the Heights’ is just more of the same whitewashed Hollywood The Washington Post 2021-06-21 Julissa Contreras and Dash Harris Machado Producer Lin-Manuel Miranda attends the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival opening-night premiere of “In the Heights” on June 9 in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Julissa Contreras is a Dominican writer, poet, actor and creator…
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Anatole Broyard wanted to be a writer, not a black writer. So he chose to live a lie rather than be trapped by the truth.
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The accusation of colorism in the light-skinned casting choices illuminates a problem regarding whom Hollywood presents as “Latino,” and whom it excludes, according to Tanya K. Hernández, author of Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination. “There is often a complete erasure of Afro-Latinos, and a frozen, overly romanticized picture of indigenous peoples as…
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Queer Memory and Black Germans The New Fascism Syllabus: Exploring the New Right through Scholarship and Civic Engagement 2021-06-08 Tiffany N. Florvil, Associate Professor of European History University of New Mexico Memorial plaque, May-Ayim-Ufer, Berlin. OTFW CC BY-SA 3.0. In “The German Catechism,” Dirk Moses offers an interesting intervention by challenging the idea of the…
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Don’t let the politics of BLM define mixed-race Americans The New York Daily News 2021-06-19 Charles Byrd Mixed-race Americans (Shutterstock/Shutterstock) Prior to June 12, 1967, anti-miscegenation laws still existed in the southern United States. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned those remaining statutes of segregationist race-consciousness with its landmark “Loving v. Virginia” decision. That case did…
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Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions.
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Acquanetta Jungle Frolics2009-10-15 Richard Beland Acquanetta was born Mildred Davenport on July 17, 1921, and, depending on your source, was of either black or American Indian origin. A few writers have claimed she was Cheyenne Indian; possibly they’re confusing this with reports of her being from Cheyenne, Wyoming, or having been born in Ozone, near…
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Study of Multiracial Women Leading in Large Organizations Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California 2021-06-19 Michele A. Richardson (marichardson@email.fielding.edu), Doctoral Student, Human Development School of Leadership Studies This study examines how multiracial women leaders see themselves and how that self-concept might influence their approach to navigating tensions and complexity at work.