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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I was looking for that mythical interstitial place where my blackness and Latinidad could peacefully coexist. This is what I found.
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On subways and train stations, seeing ads with Japanese people in blackface has been like getting spooked by the boogeyman. “Imagine if Kantra was watching TV every day and she saw that? She’d be terrified,” Haruki said.
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To be a black woman in 2017 is a lot of things. And none of them are easy.
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One possible antidote to the misappropriation of multiracial identity is for Loving Day celebrations to focus upon what was the ultimate civil rights objective of the Loving v. Virginia decision – the impermissible pursuit of what the Supreme Court there termed “White Supremacy.” This is because interracial bans only prohibited interracial marriage involving white persons.…
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Iconic Fine Arts Sculptor Edmonia Lewis Honored In Google Doodle The Huffington Post 2017-02-01 Zahara Hill, Black Voices Editorial Fellow Sophie Diao The artist’s dedication to portraying her African-American and Native-American ancestry separated her from other sculptors. Black History Month began with the art of this lesser-known black icon. In honor of the start of…
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Soccer Led Me To Embrace Every Part Of My Multiracial Heritage The Huffington Post 2017-01-06 Geneva Abdul, Publicist & Writer Toronto, Ontario, Canada Born from the marrying of British and Trinidadian cultures, I defined my cultural identity through soccer when I decided to play for Trinidad and Tobago at the age of 14. Growing up,…
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Elizabeth Anionwu’s Memoir: Mixed Blessings From A Cambridge Union Exceeds All Superlatives The Huffington Post 2016-12-28 Claudia Tomlinson, Author, campaigner, entrepreneur London, England Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Anionwu: Photograph by Barney Newman Elizabeth Anionwu is a diminutive woman of colossal talent in everything she has turned her hand to, and to top off a high achieving…
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Artist Explodes Racial Stereotypes In Shape-Shifting Photographs The Huffington Post 2016-10-20 Priscilla Frank, Arts & Culture Writer Shulamit Nazarian “My experience as a person of color is different than others’. I have something to say.” Artist Genevieve Gaignard grew up in the town of Orange, Massachusetts. Her mother was white, her father black ― one…
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White Model Apologizes After Her Photo Shows Up On Blackhair Magazine The Huffington Post 2016-11-21 Zeba Blay “I’m very sorry this cover was taken away from a black woman,” she wrote. Blackhair magazine had some explaining to do after mistakenly featuring a white model rocking afro-textured hair on the cover of its latest issue. The publication, known…