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: The Guardian
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I’m protective of my blackness because I had to find it myself The Guardian 2015-11-12 Rebecca Carroll I was dogged in my determination to evolve outside the narrow margins of the small white world of my beginning and into another more racially familiar one I spent the first 20 years of my life internalizing white…
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TS Eliot prize: poet Sarah Howe wins with ‘amazing’ debut The Guardian 2016-01-11 Mark Brown, Arts correspondent Sarah Howe, a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, could ‘change British poetry’. Photograph: Hayley Madden/FMcM/PA Judges hail daring use of form in a collection that examines poet’s joint British and Chinese heritage A new voice, who judges say…
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Rachel Dolezal: ‘I wasn’t identifying as black to upset people. I was being me’ The Guardian 2015-12-13 Chris McGreal, Senior Writer Guardian US Rachel Dolezal at her home in Spokane. Photograph: Annie Kuster for the Guardian She became a global hate figure this year when she was outed as a ‘race faker’. Here, she talks…
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Maya Rudolph: ‘I’m not a woman in comedy. I’m a comedian’ The Guardian 2015-12-05 Tom Lamont She’s been a Saturday Night Live regular for years, with her hilarious celebrity send-ups, and she hit the global bigtime as the bride in Bridesmaids. So why is Maya Rudolph now playing nasty? Inside a hot studio, on a…
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Love and hate: interracial couples speak out about the racism they’ve faced The Guardian 2015-11-26 Nell Frizzell ‘I asked them to share any negative comments they’d overheard about themselves.’ All photographs by Donna Pinckley A couple stand by a flower bed. Her arm is wrapped about his waist like a rose climbing a tree. He…
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Translation Tuesday: from The Atlantic Grows by Julie Sten-Knudsen The Guardian 2015-11-24 Julie Sten-Knudsen ‘Welcome to the skin-coloured land…’ Photograph: Henrik Sorensen/Getty Images The fourth in a series on translated work features a poetic investigation of the relationship between two sisters who share the same mother and yet are divided – by their different fathers,…
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Brazilian television slowly confronts country’s deeply entrenched race issues The Guardian 2015-10-07 Bruce Douglas Rio de Janeiro Mister Brau features a black couple known as Brazil’s Jay Z and Beyoncé in the lead roles – an unprecedented move in a country whose majority black population has long been sidelined in its leading leisure-time industry In…