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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Local Author Dmae Roberts Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Avenue Portland, Oregon 97227 2016-09-01, 19:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time) Dmae Roberts will read from her book and give a preview of a larger conversation that will be coming soon with the Oregon Humanities Conversation Project. The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed-Race Family traces four decades…
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Mixed-race in Oregon The Asian Reporter Portland, Oregon Volume 26, Number 12 (2016-06-20) ISSN: 1094-9453 page 6, columns 2-3 Dmae Roberts, Writer, Producer, Media and Theatre Artist I received some exciting news this month. I was selected as one of the speakers for the Oregon Humanities Conversation Project, a program that brings people together to…
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Oregon’s Portland Community College to mark ‘Whiteness History Month’ NBC News 2016-01-21 Shamar Walters and Cassandra Vinograd First comes Black History Month and then … Whiteness History Month? A community college in Oregon has set aside April to look at “whiteness” — but not to celebrate what it’s described as a social construct which leads…
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I won’t apologize for my blackness. Lake Views: The Award Winning Student Newspaper of Lake Oswego High School Lake Oswego, Oregon 2015-10-07 Camryn Leland It’s not my job to make you feel comfortable. In an article written about the use of the n-word in the NFL it was stated, “The Story of the n-word, in…
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Portlander Damaris Webb explores racial gray areas in ‘The Box Marked Black’ The Oregonian Portland, Oregon 2013-02-16 Marty Hughley When it came time for Damaris Webb to apply for college, her father encouraged her to check the box on application forms indicating “black” as her racial origin. For long enough in his family’s history, being…
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Pilot Episode The Source Weekly Bend, Oregon 2014-03-20 Brianna Brey Jason Graham (The Source Weekly) The Lot’s new open mic calls on Bend’s creative types “Calling ALL local musicians, artist and hacks,” reads the event listing for Bend’s newest open mic night, an free-for-all gathering on Wednesday nights at The Lot. “Sing a tune, read…
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Mosley Wotta releases new album The Bulletin Bend, Oregon 2012-09-14 Ben Salmon Bend hip-hop artist performs in Bend tonight Anyone who knows local artist, musician and educator Jason Graham—aka MOsley WOtta, leader of the hip-hop band of the same name—knows that his relocation to Bend at age 9 from Chicago’s north side has had a…
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Telling His Story, Keeping His Promises: MOsley WOtta as performer and father True North Central Oregon Parenting January/February 2012 Michelle Bazemore photography by Kimberly Teichrow Note from Steven F. Riley: I will be the co-host on the February 22, 2012 podcast of Mixed Chicks Chat with featured guest Jason Graham. It’s difficult to spend time…
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It’s been a good year for Bend’s MOsley WOtta. The hip-hop group played shows around the state, opening for acts such as Ice Cube and Tricky. The band plans to close out this year with a New Year’s Eve show in Bend. That’s where the band will unveil its third official release, titled Amalgum X.…