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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Wisconsin chief treading carefully after fatal shooting The Washington Post 2015-03-08 The Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — Within hours of a white officer shooting an unarmed black man, the police chief of Wisconsin’s capital city was praying with the man’s grandmother, hoping to strike a conciliatory tone and avoid the riots that last year rocked…
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Md. Gov. Larry Hogan and his Korean-born wife, Yumi, are a historic first couple The Washington Post 2015-01-23 Michael S. Rosenwald, Staff Writer She was a painter displaying her abstract landscapes, a single mother of three daughters who’d grown up on a chicken farm in South Korea. He was a wealthy bachelor with more interest…
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Where are all the interracial children’s books? The Washington Post 2015-01-20 Nevin Martell Browsing the shelves of the children’s section at bookstores can be a depressing experience for the parent of an interracial youngster. I’m a mutt mixture Caucasian with roots going back to Western Europe and beyond, while my wife is from Ghana. We…
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Woman rides in Rose Bowl parade almost 60 years after being snubbed because of her race The Washington Post 2015-01-01 Diana Reese Overland Park, Kansas Racism “was a fact of life,” Joan Williams says about 1958, the year she was supposed to ride on a city-sponsored float in the Rose Parade of Pasadena. The 27-year-old…
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Outspoken about Ferguson, Jesse Williams may be this generation’s Harry Belafonte The Washington Post 2014-08-20 Soraya Nadia McDonald Harry Belafonte, left. (NBC via AP) Jesse Williams, right. (Christian Alminana/AP) There are many ways to get celebrity activism wrong when it comes to a situation like the one that has emerged in Ferguson, Mo. Appearing to…
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How America will look in 2060, in 7 graphs The Washington Post 2014-12-16 Philip Bump The Census Bureau recently released its 2014 population projections, gaming out the next 45 years of population growth and changes in the United States. For those of us who pay particular attention to the composition of the population (because we…
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In Japan’s Okinawa, saving indigenous languages is about more than words The Washington Post 2014-11-29 Anna Fifield, Tokyo Bureau Chief NISHIHARA, Japan — Rising in turn at their wooden desks, the students giggled, squirmed or shuffled as they introduced themselves, some practically in a whisper. “Waa naamee ya — yaibiin . . . (My name is . . . ).” One…
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Privilege is like oxygen: You don’t realize it’s there until it’s gone. As white folks, we can’t know what it’s like to go through life without racial privilege because we literally haven’t. Sally Kohn, “What white people need to know, and do, after Ferguson,” The Washington Post, November 28, 2014. http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/28/what-white-people-need-to-know-and-do-after-ferguson/.
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Racial divide: It’s a social concept, not a scientific one The Washington Post 2014-11-03 Nancy Szokan Most scientists agree that race is not a biological concept. As Wikipedia defines it, in an extremely lengthy and extravagantly footnoted entry that surely has been edited and re-edited many times, “Race is a social concept used to categorize…