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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Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi review – serious issues, fairytale narrative The Guardian 2015-10-04 Anthony Cummins Oyeyemi, Helen, Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel (New York: Riverhead Press, 2014) Oyeyemi’s fifth novel finds her treating the horrors of racism in 1950s America with gentle, magical style Helen Oyeyemi, a Granta best of young British novelist,…
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“I remember a mom of a friend of mine in the suburbs made some comment about a black person and – I had to be 12, about 60 pounds – and I said something and she said: ‘Oh no, not you. You are not black. You are great.’ It was real. That fucking happened. And…
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Chi-chi Nwanoku: ‘I want black musicians to walk on to the stage and know they belong’ The Guardian 2015-06-02 Chi-chi Nwanoku Chi-chi Nwanoku: ‘I feel sure that bringing a group of people together to play incredible music is a creatively powerful and positive thing.’ Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi For 30 years, double bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku has…
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Chris Harper Mercer: details emerge of Oregon college killer The Guardian 2015-10-02 Ben Jacobs and Nicky Woolf Chris Harper Mercer, the alleged gunman in the Oregon shootings. He had captioned this photo: ‘Me, holding a rifle.’ Photograph: Myspace Umpqua college shooter, who was born in England according to media reports, had a varied online presence…
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I’ve experienced a new level of racism since Donald Trump went after Latinos The Guardian 2015-09-09 Tina Vasquez I have never been asked the type of questions I’m now fielding from white people – and I’m not the only one Donald Trump’s hate speech against Latinos seems to be emboldening white Americans’ racism. For many,…
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Louise Erdrich on her fiction: ‘I’m writing out of the mixture of cultures’ The Guardian 2015-09-05 Bridey Heing Receiving the Library of Congress prize for American fiction, Erdrich spoke of how her writing emerged from the ‘great loss’ of Native Americans Novelist Louise Erdrich was presented with the Library of Congress prize for American fiction…
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My baby will be mixed race. So why did I automatically think of him as ‘black’? The Guardian 2014-10-14 Victoria Bond I picked a black baby to represent my unborn child on a cake because of my own adherence to the ‘one-drop rule’ My 87-year-old grandmother has a very specific way of saying the word…
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Mark Duggan: mother of man shot dead by police in 2011 calls for urgent inquiry The Guardian 2015-08-04 Diane Taylor Pamela Duggan claims police could have done much more to track down the man who supplied a weapon to her son. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Call for new inquiry comes as demonstrators prepare to march to…
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Tony Robinson’s mother files civil rights lawsuit over fatal police shooting of son The Guardian 2015-08-13 Zoe Sullivan Andrea Irwin alleges officer Matt Kenny violated 14th amendment equal protection rights and fourth amendment right against unreasonable searches The mother of a biracial man killed by a white police officer in Madison, Wisconsin, has filed a…