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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Mixing Race: The Kong Sing Brothers and Australian Sport Australian Historical Studies Volume 39, Issue 3 (2008) pages 338-355 DOI: 10.1080/10314610802263323 Gary Osmond, Lecturer School of Human Movement Studies University of Queensland Marie-Louise McDermott Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia Little research exists on the participation of Chinese in Australian sport in the colonial or…
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A Rising Hockey Star With N.B.A. DNA The New York Times 2012-12-20 Jeff Z. Klein Seth Jones probably should have wound up a basketball player. He is tall, with a great vertical leap, and his father is Popeye Jones, who played 11 years in the N.B.A. and is now an assistant coach with the Nets.…
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Brendon Ayanbadejo, Baltimore Ravens Linebacker, Talks Gay Marriage And LGBT Rights The Huffington Post 2012-09-12 Michelangelo Signorile Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo is going “full steam ahead” after his battle with Maryland legislator C. Emmett Burns Jr., who last week wrote a letter calling on the team’s owner to silence Ayanbadejo regarding his public advocacy…
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Standing Up at an Early Age The New York Times 2012-09-14 Adam Himmelsbach Views on Gay Rights of Ravens’ Ayanbadejo Are Rooted in Upbringing In recent weeks, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo has been praised in many quarters for supporting the legalization of same-sex marriage. His stance is not new, but it reached a wider…
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“Slave genes” myth must die Salon 2012-07-24 Amy Bass, Associate Professor of History The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York Michael Johnson links African-American sprinters to slavery, and revisits a particularly ugly pseudo-science In 1988, Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder (in)famously stated that the prowess of African-American football players could be traced to slavery,…
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Olympic Swimmer Neal Built Her Dream in Brooklyn The New York Times 2012-07-15 William C. Rhoden, Sports Columnist Lia Neal (Al Bello/Getty Images) Rome and Siu Neal with their grandson Rome Jin, their son Rome Kyn and his wife Ziggy (Victor J. Blue for The New York Times) Rome Neal walked up to the microphone…
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Multicultural children’s baseball team founded The Korea Times 2012-04-20 Kim Bo-eun Former baseball player Heo Koo-youn, 61, will found a baseball team for children of interracial families in Korea, Monday. The team will be called Heo Koo-youn Rainbow Little. The initiation ceremony will be held at the National Baseball Center in Goyang, north of Seoul.…