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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Tiger Woods at 40: The 14-time major champion’s legacy BBC Sport 2015-12-30 Iain Carter, Golf Correspondent Masters 2001: Woods seals ‘Tiger’ slam Imagine Earl Woods choosing to put a baseball bat rather than a golf club into the hands of young Eldrick, his toddler son. How different would golf be if Tiger Woods, who turns…
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True Colors: Charlie Villanueva and Others Explain the Afro-Latino Experience ESPN 2015-09-10 Charlie Villanueva knows that life in the United States for many still means being judged by one’s skin color, but he’s not shy about challenging such preconceived ideas, boldly asking if the public can know who he really is by just a surface…
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James Blake doesn’t want NYPD cop who tackled him to ‘ever have a badge and gun again’ The New York Daily News 2015-09-12 Wayne Coffey, Special Reporter Rich Schapiro, Staff Writer Retired tennis star James Blake said Saturday the NYPD cop who brutally wrestled him to the ground should be served his walking papers. “I…
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James Blake and the Myth of an Unarrestable Black Man The Daily Beast 2015-09-10 Tomás Ríos Bill Bratton said race ‘had nothing at all to do’ with tennis star James Blake’s wrongful collaring and arrest. The numbers tell a different story. What does a non-white person have to do for the police to leave them…
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Serena Williams, Tiger Woods and racial identity in sports ESPN 2015-09-05 Mike Wise, Senior Writer Mike Wise writes that Serena Williams has embraced her blackness and found a spiritual home while Tiger Woods has been proudly biracial and found a perhaps unintended kind of isolation You can’t miss the term “black excellence” pulsating through Claudia…
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The twisted irony of the NYPD wrongly assaulting and detaining black tennis star James Blake The Daily Kos 2015-09-10 Shawn King Yeah. This really happened. Retired black tennis star James Blake, in an NYPD double-fault, was slammed to a Manhattan sidewalk and handcuffed by a white cop in a brutal case of mistaken identity. The…
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Police Tactics in Harsh Glare After Arrest of James Blake The New York Times 2015-09-10 Benjamin Mueller, Al Baker and Liz Robbins A New York Police Department officer was stripped of his gun and badge as Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William J. Bratton issued swift apologies on Thursday for the rough arrest…
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Kang Soo-il’s drugs ban ruins inspirational tale for mixed-race Koreans The Guardian 2015-07-30 John Duerden, Asian football correspondent The striker with an American GI father was on the verge of a dream debut for South Korea after a lifetime struggle against discrimination when he tested positive for an anabolic steroid he blamed on moustache-growing cream…
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Was pro baseball’s first African-American player passing for white? Vox 2015-04-11 Jenée Desmond-Harris William Edward White on the 1879 Brown baseball team. White is in the second row, seated and wearing a hat. (Source: Brown University Archives via Slate) A story about professional baseball’s little-known first black player (well, possible first black player) raises as…