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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When a master class with ballerina Misty Copeland becomes a San Pedro homecoming The Los Angeles Times 2015-12-23 Deborah Vankin, Contact Reporter Ascendant ballerina Misty Copeland leads a master class during Monday’s celebration in San Pedro. (Christina House/For The Times) The crowd of about 200 huddled in the parking lot of San Pedro City Ballet,…
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Blaxican: The Revolutionary Identity of Black Mexicans teleSUR 2015-07-29 “The Afro-Latino term felt like home. There was finally a term that described what all of this was. It was a group of people who felt like I was feeling. I was finally able to identify with a group of people and it was a relief.”…
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Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist University of Oklahoma Press September 2015 304 pages 6.125″ x 9.25″ Hardcover ISBN: 9780806149165 Amina Hassan, Consultant & Researcher The Azara Group, New York, New York Loren Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s, particularly in the…
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These are the beautiful, complex Blaxicans of Los Angeles Fusion 2015-09-24 Jorge Rivas, National Affairs Correspondent Back when Walter Thompson-Hernandez was in graduate school, his friends and family would give him blank stares as he explained what he was studying. Finally, in an effort to make his work more accessible, he started an Instagram account…
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Love Across the Color Line: Remembering Alan Kaplan KCET TV Burbank, California 2015-09-10 Erin Aubry Kaplan Fourteen years ago I wrote an article for Salon.com published for Valentine’s Day about how I met my husband, Alan Kaplan. I ended the article on a cautionary note: our hugely improbable, racially romantic story did not mean that…
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This Instagram Project is Giving a Voice to the “Blaxican” Experience Remezcla 2015-07-28 Yara Simón The history of race in the United States is often told in terms of black and white, a binary that leaves many out of the equation. “Blaxican” researcher Walter Thompson-Hernandez is trying to expand the conversation, with a project that…
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Q&A “Blaxicans of L.A.”: capturing two cultures in one The Los Angeles Times 2015-07-21 Ebony Bailey When race in this country is often discussed in black and white, where do those who don’t quite fit the dime fall?. Walter Thompson-Hernandez, a researcher with the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration at USC, is attempting…
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Early Afro-Mexican Settlers in California C-SPAN: Created by Cable 2015-05-20 Host: California Historical Society Professor Carlos Manuel Salomon, author of Pio Pico: The Last Governor of Mexican California, talked about Mexicans of African descent who were some of the first non-Indian settlers in California. Many came from Sinaloa and Sonora, Mexico, with the Anza Expedition in…
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It’s official: Latinos now outnumber whites in California The Los Angeles Times 2015-07-08 Javier Panzar Source: The Los Angeles Times The demographers agreed: At some point in 2014, Latinos would pass whites as the largest ethnic group in California. Determining when exactly that milestone would occur was more of a tricky question. Counting people isn’t…