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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Trevor Noah: ‘It’s easier to be an angry white man than an angry black man’ The Guardian 2016-04-02 Lanre Bakare, Deputy Arts Editor Trevor Noah photographed at the Daily Show offices. Photograph: Christopher Lane Six months ago the South African comic took on the trickiest task in comedy; replacing Jon Stewart as host of the…
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However, though my mum’s Irish, my father is Nigerian. I am not white! This fact, one that I had never even considered before I returned to the land of a thousand welcomes, now became the defining feature of my existence. I remember that first week or so back in Dublin, when I was sent out…
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I’m Irish but I’m not white. Why is that still a problem as we celebrate the Easter Rising? The Guardian 2016-03-29 Emma Dabiri With an Irish mother and Nigerian father, I grew up singing Irish rebel songs. But the racism I experienced was not part of the dreams of 1916’s revolutionaries I grew up singing…
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Six-year-old taken from California foster family under Indian Child Welfare Act The Guardian 2016-03-22 The Associated Press in Santa Clarita, California Lexi, who has lived with the foster family for years, was removed by a court order which says her Native American heritage requires her to live with Utah relatives A six-year-old girl who spent…
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Jackie Kay: Scotland’s poet of the people The Guardian 2016-03-20 Kevin McKenna Jackie Kay at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh last week. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA To say there was a national outpouring of joy at the appointment of Jackie Kay as Scotland’s makar last week might be overdoing it, but not by much. In…
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Black hair is finally fashionable. But on whose terms? – video The Guardian 2016-03-09 Emma Dabiri Growing up with afro hair can be traumatic, especially when white ideals of beauty are everywhere. But, says Emma Dabiri, black women are increasingly letting their natural hair out, and the ‘fro is becoming fashionable. But, she argues, they…
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I thought I was a gorgeous kid until I learned I was just ‘pretty, for a black girl’ The Guardian 2016-02-04 Rebecca Carroll My white birthmother told me that the idea that I was gorgeous was a fiction inflicted upon me out of a sense of white liberal guilt When I was a little girl,…