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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‘Las Caras Lindas’: To Be Black And Puerto Rican In 2013 Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2013-05-25 Jasmine Garsd I am a black man Who was born café con leche I sneaked into a party, to which I had not been invited. And I got kicked out. They threw…
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Census Bureau Rethinks The Best Way To Measure Race National Public Radio 2012-12-27 Corey Dade, National Correspondent, Digital News Possible revisions to how the decennial census asks questions about race and ethnicity have raised concerns among some groups that any changes could reduce their population count and thus weaken their electoral clout. The Census Bureau…
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In ‘Red Pyramid,’ Kid Heroes Take On Ancient Egypt Backseat Bookclub All Things Considered National Public Radio 2012-12-19 Melissa Block, Host Robert Siegel, Senior Host If there was a recipe for the best-selling writer Rick Riordan, it would go something like this — start with a love of storytelling, fold in more than a decade…
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‘Master’ Jefferson: Defender Of Liberty, Then Slavery Fresh Air from WHYY National Public Radio 2012-10-18 Maureen Corrigan, Book Critic His public words have inspired millions, but for scholars, his private words and deeds generate confusion, discomfort, apologetic excuses. When the young Thomas Jefferson wrote, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are…
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Jazz, Race Collide With War In 1930s Europe Tell Me More National Public Radio 2012-03-26 Jacki Lyden, Host The novel Half Blood Blues explores an often overlooked slice of history: black jazz musicians in Germany on the eve of World War II. The book moves from 1992 to 1939, from Baltimore to Berlin to Paris.…
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‘The Black Count,’ A Hero On The Field, And The Page Weekend Edition Saturday National Public Radio 2012-09-15 Scott Simon, Host Tom Reiss, Author The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal,and the Real Count of Monte Cristo. By Tom Reiss, 432 pp. Crown Publishers. Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-38246-7. Gen. Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was one of the heroes of the…
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Summer Blend Book Club Wraps Up Tell Me More National Public Radio 2011-08-25 Michel Martin, Host This series began in June with the help of Heidi Durrow, author and co-founder of the “Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival.” All summer long, Tell Me More has been covering books about the multicultural experience in America. Durrow…
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Multiracial Teens Launch A ‘Latte Rebellion’ Tell Me More National Public Radio 2011-07-15 Michel Martin, Host “You’re half Chinese and half European, I’m half Indian, a quarter Mexican and a quarter Irish. We’re mixed up. We’re not really one or the other ethnically. We’re like human lattes.” So explains Asha, the main character in Sarah…