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: August 4, 2024
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Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica University of Pennsylvania Press June 2017 328 Pages 6.00 x 9.00 in, 10 illus. Hardcover ISBN: 9780812249187 Paperback ISBN: 9780812224603 eBook ISBN: Sasha Turner, Associate Professor of History The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in…
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On Turning Black The New York Times 2024-08-01 Esau McCaulley, Contributing Opinion Writer Illustration by The New York Times; Photo: Erin Schaff/The New York Times During his interview before the National Association of Black Journalists this week, Donald Trump was asked if he would call upon his fellow Republicans to refrain from labeling Vice President…
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Inspired by a real-life scandal that was shocking even for the tumultuous Roaring Twenties, this captivating novel tells the story of a pioneering Black journalist, a secret interracial marriage among the New York elite, and the sensational divorce case that ignited an explosive battle over race and class—and brought together three very different women fighting…
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Even as Trump plays up racial divisions, many Americans said they would rather not dwell on race or identity. “We can all see that you’re Black.”