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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How my white mother shaped me into a black man Melissa Harris-Perry MSNBC 2013-08-13 Albert L. Butler, Radio Host 900 AM WURD, Philadelphia I am an avid watcher of Melissa Harris-Perry, so I was not at all surprised–and was quite pleased–when host Melissa Harris-Perry tackled the subject of white mothers raising black boys in America…
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…I don’t believe multi-racial makes sense by my understanding of race. Race is socially constructed and “multi-racial” seems to assume that race is biological: if parents are of different then the kid is “mixed”. But that is not how race works. Race is constructed through law, history, culture, practice, custom, etc. “Black” does not…
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When we see a black body [President Barack Obama] embodying the American state, and particularly a black body that didn’t have to be black—that could have chose some other kind of intersectional identity. And was no, “I’m black.” On his census form, “I’m black.” And then married Michelle who looked black from way over there and…