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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Tag: Rachel A. Dolezal
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BBC World TV Interview Re Rachel Dolezal & Passing Marcia Dawkins 2015-06-12 Marcia Dawkins, Assistant Professor of Arts and Humanities The Minerva Schools at KGI, San Francisco, California Dr. Dee chatted roadside with BBC World News about the firestorm raging around Rachel Dolezal, the white Spokane, Washington NAACP leader who allegedly passes as black.
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Before Rachel Dolezal, what did it mean to ‘pass’? Christian Science Monitor 2015-06-22 Randy Dotinga, President American Society of Journalists and Authors Allyson Hobbs, author of ‘A Chosen Exile,’ says the debate stirred up by Rachel Dolezal’s resignation from the NAACP hits historic chords. Allyson Hobbs, a history professor at Stanford University, remembers hearing a…
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Why It Was Easy for Rachel Dolezal to Pass as Black Pacific Standard 2015-06-15 Lisa Wade, Associate Professor of Sociology Occidental College, Los Angeles, California Race is more social than biological. Source: (1)ne Drop Project Earlier this year a CBS commentator in a panel with Jay Smooth embarrassingly revealed that she thought he was white…
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When black is white and vice versa The New Tri-State Defender Memphis, Tennessee 2015-12-23 Brittney Gathen, Special to The New Tri-State Defender Dr. Allyson Hobbs signed copies of her book, “A Chosen Exile: AHistory of Racial Passing in American Life,” during an event called “Book Talk” at the National Civil Rights Museum. (Photo: Merritt Gathen)…
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Rachel Dolezal: ‘I wasn’t identifying as black to upset people. I was being me’ The Guardian 2015-12-13 Chris McGreal, Senior Writer Guardian US Rachel Dolezal at her home in Spokane. Photograph: Annie Kuster for the Guardian She became a global hate figure this year when she was outed as a ‘race faker’. Here, she talks…
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In an exclusive interview, Rachel Dolezal discusses growing up on a Christian homestead, painting her face different colors as a child, and why she’s naming her new baby after Langston Hughes.
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Rachel/Racial Theory: Reverse Passing in the Curious Case of Rachel Dolezal Transition Magazine 2015-06-26 Damon Sajnani (AKA ProfessorD.us), Professor of African Cultural Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison Rachel Dolezal has done more than break the internet and fuel Black twitter and emcee cyphers with innumerable punchlines. She has provided the first high-profile contemporary case of…
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White or black? Sometimes it’s not so clear-cut StarNews Online Wilmington, North Carolina 2015-10-03 Beverly Smalls In June, as Rachel Dolezal of Spokane, Wash., confused members of the NAACP as well as her family, friends and the public about her choice to identify as an African-American, new conversations began. Dolezal was accused of being a…