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: February 2022
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The Book Keeper: A Memoir of Race, Love, and Legacy Swallow Press (an imprint of Ohio University Press) January 2020 256 pages 5½ × 8½ in. Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8040-1221-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8040-4106-5 Julia McKenzie Munemo In a memoir that’s equal parts love story, investigation, and racial reckoning, Munemo unravels and interrogates her whiteness, a shocking…
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The essays in this collection contend with the multitude of ways that racial mixedness has been presented in superhero comics, films, television, and literature.
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For Mike, the revelation left him with a sense of confusion. “I had literally no idea of my own racial background,” he says. “I obviously had some questions. I occasionally met relatives. But a large part of the passing meant that we did not see relatives very often. So, I really grew up in a…
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Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in the Postrevolutionary Mexico University Press of Florida 2018-08-28 250 pages 6×9 Hardcover ISBN 13: 9781683400394 Paper ISBN 13: 9781683403104 David S. Dalton, Assistant Professor of Spanish University of North Carolina, Charlotte After the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, postrevolutionary leaders hoped to assimilate the country’s…
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The nation’s oldest ranger is hopeful for tomorrow: ‘I get a feeling that change is going to come’
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“I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S.,” says Mitski [Miyawaki]. “I didn’t identify as that before I came here. People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.” Tom Murphy, “Mitski Doesn’t Bother With Labels. She Prefers Excellence,” Westworld, July 14, 2017. https://www.westword.com/music/mitski-miyawakis-mixed-race-identity-informs-her-music-9246091.
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Librarian Louise Butler Walker ’35 took desperate measures to survive in a racist society.
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Descendant of Alex Manly talks about modern impact of 1898 Massacre WECT News 6 Wilmington, North Carolina 2021-11-10 Mara McJilton, Multimedia Journalist Alex Manly was the owner of The Daily Record newspaper in 1898 when it was burned down by white supremacists WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) –Alex Manly was the owner of The Daily Record newspaper…