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: The Guardian
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Society still largely operates under the misapprehension that race (largely defined by skin colour) has some basis in biology. There is a perpetuating idea that black-skinned or white-skinned people across the world share a similar set of genes that set the two races apart, even across continents. In short, it’s what Appiah calls “total twaddle”.…
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Jackie Kay announces makar’s tour of all the Scottish islands The Guardian 2016-10-07 Libby Brooks, Scotland Correspondent The poet has revealed plans for ‘an odyssey’ that will take in overlooked parts of Scotland and form the basis of a long poem about the country As the UK lurches towards xenophobia, it is a writer’s responsibility…
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Favourite for Ukip leader Steven Woolfe misses application deadline The Guardian 2016-08-01 Rowena Mason, Deputy political editor MEP and migration spokesman could be out of leadership race but insists he is still a candidate Steven Woolfe, the favourite to succeed Nigel Farage as Ukip leader, could be out of the race after he missed the…
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My Name Is Leon by Kit de Waal review – a touching, thought-provoking debut The Guardian 2016-06-03 Bernardine Evaristo Insight and authenticity … Kit de Waal. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian A young vulnerable boy is taken into care after his mother is no longer able to cope Kit de Waal has already garnered…
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Akala: Dynamite by any other name… The Guardian 2013-06-01 Kate Mossman, Editor and Pop critic New Statesman Akala in Notting Hill last month: ‘In Brixton and Tottenham my sister was worshipped because she was representing a side of intellectual black culture that is never usually acknowledged.’ Photograph: Karen Robinson for the Observer Rapper, adapter of…
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How Reggie Yates went from kids’ TV to confronting neo-Nazis The Guardian 2016-06-28 Hannah J. Davies Louis Theroux 2.0: Reggie Yates in a cell at Bexar County Detention Center. He braves Russian far-right rallies and Texas prison cells for his job. Meet the man helping to reinvent the documentary for Generation Y While filming in…
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Coin given to US’s oldest park ranger by Barack Obama stolen in home invasion The Guardian 2016-06-30 Sam Levin Ranger Betty Soskin holds a photo of herself has a young woman. Photograph: Alamy The White House is sending a replacement coin to 94-year-old Betty Soskin, who says she hopes she can recover the original from…
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Dancer, painter, soldier … Tottenham brothers on their way to the top The Guardian 2016-05-28 Jessica Elgot From left to right, Solomon, Kidane and Amartey … ‘We are fiercely proud – we didn’t feel like these institutions were worlds away.’ Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian Maryam Golding’s three oldest sons – an artist, a…