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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Web extra: Passing and the disassociation from one’s past

Web extra: Passing and the disassociation from one’s past

CBS Sunday Morning
2021-10-24

In this web exclusive, Joy Bivins, director of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, talks with Michelle Miller about the personal impact of someone of mixed race passing for White (or Black).

Posted in Interviews, Media Archive, Passing, United States, Videos