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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Day: February 13, 2022
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We can’t blame students for fabricating stories of hardship
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New Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel: ‘Extremely proud’ to be biracial ESPN 2022-02-11 Marcel Louis-Jacques, Miami Dolphins Reporter MIAMI — Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel, clarifying comments this week in which he said he identified “as a human being,” affirmed that his racial background is not something he simply identifies as — it’s what he is.…
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[Kelly] Curtis is biracial. “My skin tone challenges the notion of being Black in America and what that carries,” she added. She knows when the world sees her, people may not view her as someone who fits their preconceived notion of a skeleton athlete, an Olympian or a Black woman. “I’m either not Black enough…
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Meet the first Black skeleton athlete to compete for the U.S. at the Olympics National Public Radio 2022-02-10 Jaclyn Diaz, Reporter Kelly Curtis stands next to the Olympic rings. She’s competing in the skeleton competition at the Beijing Olympics. IBSF BEIJING — Skeleton is a heart-racing, adrenaline-fueled event where a single racer flies face-first down…
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On Being Other: Primadonna 2021 Primadonna Festival2022-02-11 Join writer and journalist Bee Rowlatt as she introduces this year’s Costa winner Monique Roffey, author of the remarkable novel The Mermaid of Black Conch, and Natalie Morris, whose debut title Mixed/Other came out in 2021. Together they explore shared themes of otherness, outsider
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The double life of the title [White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret] plays out several ways. Born in Atlanta in 1893, [Walter] White was defined as Black by Southern laws and customs. Yet his enslaved forebears were raped by white owners, making him, according to family history, a…
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I’m a bi-national writer based in East London. My identity is mixed and fluid in that I was born in Port of Spain, (a city I frequently return to), but I’m also half English. Via my mother, I have Italian, Maltese and Middle Eastern blood.
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Belle de Costa Greene: Library Director, Advocate, and Rare Books Expert. Headlines & Heroes: Newspapers, Comics, & More Fine Print Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2022-02-08 Joanna Colclough, Reference Librarian Serial and Government Publications Division Belle de Costa Greene, Oct. 1, 1929. Photograph by Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints…