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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“Today a mixed-race family is a political plus. Without saying a word, you project an image of progress and modernity.”

“Today,” [Larry] Sabato said, “a mixed-race family is a political plus. Without saying a word, you project an image of progress and modernity.”

Michael Paul Williams, “Williams: A positive among the attack ads in the Gecker-Sturtevant race,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, November 2, 2015. http://www.richmond.com/news/local/michael-paul-williams/article_6b52ef50-c465-5bc0-a03f-fa1789661a0c.html.

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