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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‘Americanah’ Author Explains ‘Learning’ To Be Black In The U.S.

2013-07-01

‘Americanah’ Author Explains ‘Learning’ To Be Black In The U.S. Fresh Air from WHYY National Public Radio 2013-06-27 Terry Gross, Host When the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was growing up in Nigeria she was not used to being identified by the color of her skin. That changed when she arrived in the United States for…