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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Although I am representing the reality of black mixed heritage being closely linked, if not almost the same, to the “full black” experience of British footballers, this does not mean that a black mixed heritage player cannot or should not celebrate his multiracial identity. Of course individuals should define themselves how they want to, and…
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Consequently, the celebration of “both worlds” in terms of black mixed heritage persons has always been problematic in relation to it being a rather superficial exercise, limited to one’s inner circle of family and friends. It is pretty obvious that most persons of black mixed heritage will hold a deep love for a parent that…
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Black Liverpool, Black America, and the Gendering of Diasporic Space Cultural Anthropology Volume 13, Issue 3 (August 1998) pages 291–325 DOI: 10.1525/can.1998.13.3.291 Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hunter College of the City University of New York The terms black Liverpool and black America, no less than the African diaspora, refer to racialized geographies of…
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When examining the issue of multiracial identity, it is important to understand the legacy of white supremacy. It is a theory and practice based on the irrational opinion that white Europeans (mainly Anglo-Saxon and Northern European origin) are inherently superior to non-Anglo-Saxon origin peoples—particularly those of African and Asian ancestry. Moreover, it is also a theory…
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Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective by Mark Christian [Book Review] Journal of Black Studies Volume 32, Number 2 (November 2001) pages 261-264 DOI: 10.1177/002193470103200206 Molefi Kete Asante, Professor of African American Studies Temple University Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective, by Mark Christian. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Mark Christian has written a perceptive, enlightening…