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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What few outside his family and close friends knew at that time: Taffy Abel was Native American – the first Indigenous athlete to carry the flag at the Olympics. Within days he’d become the first Native American to win a medal in winter games history.
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Looking back at Jackie Court, other Black trailblazers in Brown Athletics program
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The only woman in the National Baseball Hall of Fame had a fascinating — and confusing — past
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There’s a booming new voice in Wrigleyville, and it belongs to 21-year-old Jeremiah Paprocki. The Cubs hired Paprocki to be their new public-address announcer, making him the first African American in team history to hold the position. He also is thought to be the youngest P.A. announcer in Major League Baseball.
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Wallace’s NASCAR Cup win was the first by a Black driver since 1963 and also the inaugural victory in the sport’s top series for Michael Jordan, the co-owner of Wallace’s team.
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Netflix has released a new first-look clip of “Colin in Black and White,” which tells the story of former NFL player Colin Kaepernick during his high school years growing up in central California.
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Tables run upwards of $275,000 and can be exclusionary to young, diverse talent, so the seven-time F1 world champion hosted his own.
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Bubba Wallace Welcomes Fans Into His Garage With New Netflix Docuseries The Root 2021-04-23 Jay Connor Photo: Chris Graythen (Getty Images) Being the only Black driver in NASCAR’s top racing series comes with more than its fair share of trials and tribulations. In the last year alone, we’ve seen Bubba Wallace succeed in his quest…