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 living in a racial closet”: Black filmmaker Lacey Schwartz on growing up white Salon Sunday, 2015-03-22 Marissa Charles A photo of Lacey Schwartz and her mother, in “Little White Lie” (Credit: PBS) Schwartz talks to Salon about race, privilege, family secrets and her new PBS documentary “Little White Lie” For the first 18…
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The “Dear White People” syndrome: Why movies are obsessed with light-skinned black characters Salon 2014-10-23 Morgan Jerkins This isn’t the first film to relegate dark-skinned actors to the sidelines — but it may be the most frustrating For Princeton University’s recent Black Alumni Conference, an advance screening of “Dear White People” took place at the…
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I raised my sons to be racially neutral Salon 2014-10-18 Terry Baker Mulligan Two mixed-race boys, one lighter skinned than the other. Did I make a mistake telling them they were the same? One Saturday night in St. Louis about decade ago my younger son, then a teen, was driving around town with two white…
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Advances in genealogy and DNA analysis tell surprising and disturbing stories about the heritage we think we know
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Elliot Rodger’s half-white male privilege Salon Thusday, 2014-05-29 Joan Walsh, Editor at Large The killer’s Asian heritage matters. So does his ugly class entitlement. Misogyny crosses lines of race and culture The widespread recognition that Elliot Rodger’s killing spree was the tragic result of misogyny and male entitlement has been a little bit surprising, and…
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Owning my mixed-race identity: Why I don’t have to choose sides Salon Wednesday, 2014-03-12 Eternity E. Martis London, Ontario, Canada People can’t seem to understand that I’m not either black or Anglo-Pakistani, but all of the above My mother is Anglo-Pakistani and my father is Jamaican (and a quarter Chinese). I grew up with my…
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“Dreadful Deceit”: Race is a myth Salon Sunday, 2013-12-15 Laura Miller, Staff Writer A historian argues that one of the defining elements of American culture is merely a “social fiction” Jacqueline Jones’ provocative new history, “Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race From the Colonial Era to Obama’s America,” contains a startling sentence on its 265th…