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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Driven by Love or Ambition, Slipping Across the Color Line Through the Ages The New York Times 2015-06-28 Rachel L. Swarns Clarence King, a Yale-educated white man who worked as a geologist in the 1800s and dined at the White House, lived a secret life as James Todd, a black train porter with a wife…
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Texas woman discovers she’s white after 70 years KHOU Houston, Texas 2015-06-22 Marvin Hurst, Reporter KENS 5 TV, San Antonio, Texas Byrd with her adoptive family. (Photo: (Photo: Family Photograph)) The mere mention of Rachel Dolezal’s name sets Verda Byrd off like a stick of dynamite. “She lied about her race,” Byrd said. “I didn’t…
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My father is black. My mother is white. I self-identify as black and as mixed and I don’t relate to those as mutually exclusive. I also try to be mindful and try to have a certain humility about how my experience differs from most other black people; about how I have certain types of residual white privilege which…
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Why Rachel Dolezal Needed To Construct Her Own Black Narrative BuzzFeed 2015-06-13 Adam Serwer, BuzzFeed News National Editor In order to pass as black, Dolezal took advantage of the black community’s long tradition of inclusion regardless of skin tone. In 1895, when Justice Henry Billings Brown ruled that Louisiana’s law segregating train cars was constitutional,…
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But Ms. [Rachel A.] Dolezal’s view of herself — however confused, or incongruent with society’s — reveals an essential truth about race: It is a fiction, a social construct based in culture and not biology. It must be “made” from what people believe and do. Race is performative. It is the memories that bind us,…
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What the 1920s Tell Us About Dolezal and Racial Illogic The Chronicle of Higher Education 2015-06-19 Carla Kaplan, Stanton W. and Elisabeth K. Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts Carla Kaplan is author of Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance (Harper, 2013). What does it mean…
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Emil Guillermo: Rachel Dolezal, Dylann Roof, and Father’s Day Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund 2015-06-20 Emil Guillermo Rachel Dolezal nearly wrecked everyone’s Father’s Day. You don’t often see a daughter outed so publicly by her white father for passing as an African American, but I guess post-racial filial love isn’t necessarily unconditional. I…
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Rachel Dolezal’s Story Sparks Questions About ‘How People Experience Race’ All Things Considered National Public Radio 2015-06-16 Audie Cornish, Host Khadijah White, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with Rutgers University professor Khadijah White and…