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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Tag: Rachel Dolezal
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Dolezal and the Defense of the Community Public Seminar 2015-07-09 Richard Kaplan Reflections on the unique difficulties of passing from white to black in America It strikes me that an incredible amount of media attention and denunciation has focused on a poor, perhaps deluded woman in Spokane, Washington. Rachel Dolezal’s crime was to lie and…
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Historian Allyson Hobbs on the History of Racial Passing The 7th Avenue Project: Thinking Persons’ Radio 2015-06-28 Robert Pollie, Host, Creator and Producer The recent case of Rachel Dolezal – the “black” activist outed as white – may have seemed novel, but she’s actually part of an old tradition of racial passing in this country.…
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From ‘blood quantum’ to multiracial bill of rights, Dolezal saga ignites talk of identity The Seattle Times 2015-06-17 Nina Shapiro, Seattle Times staff reporter The endless fascination with the Rachel Dolezal story reveals our hunger to talk about racial identity in all its complexity. When Amanda Erekson was in her early 20s, a friend introduced…
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The weird, strange narrative of Rachel Dolezal The Remix WHYY-FM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2015-06-17 James Peterson, Host What determines your race? Is it about genetics or cultural identification? The curious case of Rachel Dolezal, a white woman who has been passing for black, has been met with surprise, outrage and confusion. Dolezal, former president of the Spokane…
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Dolezal, Jenner raise fundamental questions about identity The Boston Globe 2015-06-16 Farrah Stockman, Globe Staff Finally, Rachel Dolezal — the self-identified black daughter of two Caucasian parents — has spoken. And finally, she was asked a question I’ve been wondering for days: When did it start? “At a very young age,” she replied. “About 5…
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Dolezal Controversy Sharpens Focus on Racial Identity University of Massachusetts Press 2015-06-26 The recent controversy concerning Rachel Dolezal’s racial identity steered many readers to a 2008 UMass Press book by Baz Dreisinger, Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture, which explores cases in which legally white individuals are imagined, by themselves or by others, as…