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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A mixed-race woman is about to become the first non-white member of the British monarchy, and I am conflicted.
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Ngozi Onwurah, despite being the director of the first independent black British feature film to be released, is not a household name. For a long time, her film Welcome II The Terrordome (1995), was the only film by a black woman to have a UK release.
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‘You don’t see many of them round here’: being black in the white, rural West Country gal-dem 2016-09-05 Louisa Adjoa Parker My parents met when my dad came to the UK from Ghana in the 1960s to train as a nurse. He married my mum, and I was born in Doncaster in 1972. I don’t…
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I’m Filipino too: Filipino-ness and Multiraciality gal-dem 2016-06-01 Amena Conopio-Ziard When I first participated in an online Austronesian community group, a member questioned me, in Tagalog, if I was Filipino. He thought by messaging me in Tagalog he could cleverly catch me out in an autonomous space he believed I shouldn’t be in… Read the…