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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‘In Negroland we thought of ourselves as the Third Race’ The Guardian 2016-05-22 Margo Jefferson An extract from Negroland, Margo Jefferson’s memoir of growing up in postwar America’s emerging black elite Margo Jefferson: ‘I was anxious about using the word Negro in a book title’ I was taught to avoid showing off. I was taught…
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Marvin Rees’s triumph as mayor defies Bristol’s racist past The Guardian 2016-05-08 Simon Woolley Source: Marvin Rees The descendant of enslaved Africans is now running a former slave city. His symbolic victory gives hope – and should not be forgotten While much has been said, rightly so, about a Muslim now leading London, we must…
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I’m the new NUS president – and no, I’m not an antisemitic Isis sympathiser The Guardian 2016-04-24 Malia Bouattia ‘Some may not agree with my politics and ideologies, but I do believe the student movement has a shared goal.’ Photograph: Vicky Design/NUS website The accusations being directed at me this week are deeply troubling and…
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Malia Bouattia’s election as NUS president proves deeply divisive The Guardian 2016-04-22 Jessica Elgot At the NUS conference, Bouattia won on the first round. Photograph: NUS/PA Jewish student groups alarmed by her election, but the first black Muslim woman in the role has nerves of steel, and young activists love her for that It is…
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The problem for poor, white kids is that a part of their culture has been destroyed The Guardian 2016-04-04 Paul Mason Our culture was the one celebrated in Ken Loach movies … a scene from the film Kes. Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock Thatcherism didn’t just crush the unions, it crushed a story – as the report that…
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“For me growing up as a mixed-race person, you’re forced to see both sides,” he explains. “I grew up in a house where my mother was Xhosa, my dad was Swiss, my stepdad was Shangaan, my friends were Zulu. I lived in such a melting pot that I never grew up with a preconceived notion…
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Pao by Kerry Young – review The Guardian 2011-07-03 Ian Thomson Young, Kerry, Pao: A Novel (London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011) Kerry Young’s mesmerising first novel celebrates Jamaica’s ethnic melting pot, and the lost world of Kingston’s Chinatown Jamaica, where Kerry Young was born in 1955, is an island of…