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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My interracial family needs its own action figures The Washington Post 2015-08-06 Nevin Martell (Courtesy of the author) Growing up, I can recall owning only two black action figures in a massive collection that spanned movies, television and comic book characters. There was Lando Calrissian – the smooth talking, caped czar of Cloud City in…
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Here’s what I did when racists complained about an interracial family in my magazine The Washington Post 2015-07-27 Scott Vogel, Editor-in-Chief Houstonia, a city magazine based in Houston, Texas Offended by this image? Houstonia magazine doesn’t want your business. (Photo by Chris Skiles/Houstonia) Don’t compare me to business owners who refuse to serve LGBT customers…
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How a long-dead white supremacist still threatens the future of Virginia’s Indian tribes The Washington Post 2015-07-01 Joe Heim, Staff Writer Walter A. Plecker’s goal as Virginia’s registrar of vital statistics was to ban race-mixing. He declared there were no true Indians left because of marriages with blacks. (Richmond Times-Dispatch) Virginia’s Indian tribes have faced…
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As a kid, I was biracial (and black). Today, I’m black (and biracial). The Washington Post 2015-06-24 Kristal Brent Zook, Professor of Journalism, Media Studies, and Public Relations Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York The box we check on census forms is only half the story. A recent Pew study, “Multiracial in America: Proud, Diverse and…
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Passing in reverse: What does an NAACP leader’s case say about race? The Washington Post 2015-06-12 Krissah Thompson, Staff Writer Passing in this country has usually operated in one direction: black skin passing for white, marginalization traded for privilege, the burden of the minority cast off. Until now. Enter Rachel Dolezal, 37, the head of…
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Movie about Va.’s now-defunct ban on interracial marriage to be shot in state The Washington Post 2014-05-14 Laura Vozzella, Richmond Bureau Reporter RICHMOND — Virginia has landed a movie project about Richard and Mildred Loving, the real-life Virginia couple arrested in 1958 for violating the state’s interracial marriage ban. The Lovings filed a lawsuit that…
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Legacies of war The Washington Post 2015-04-17 Annie Gowen, Bureau chief — New Delhi Linda Davidson, Photography Forty years after the fall of Saigon, soldiers’ children are still left behind Vo Huu Nhan was in his vegetable boat in the floating markets of the Mekong Delta when his phone rang. The caller from the United…
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Yes, the new ‘Daily Show’ host is black. And he’s spent his career making fun of African Americans. The Washington Post 2015-03-31 Wendy Todd, Social Media Coordinator St. Louis Public Radio, St. Louis, Missouri So much for that “fresh perspective” on race. News that Trevor Noah would replace Jon Stewart as the new host of…