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: The Associated Press
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UNLV President Len Jessup says keep Rebel nickname; research concludes no roots in Confederacy U.S. News & World Report 2015-11-30 Michelle Rindels, Politics Reporter The Associated Press FILE – In this Feb. 1, 2014, file photo, UNLV mascot Hey Reb warms up the crowd before an NCAA college basketball game in Las Vegas. UNLV President…
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Brown campus newspaper issues apology after racist columns The Associated Press 2015-10-07 Amy Anthony PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Brown University campus newspaper apologized Wednesday after publishing what it says were two “deeply hurtful” and racist columns. The Brown Daily Herald’s editorial board published an editor’s note saying it regretted the hurt caused by the…
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In Puerto Rico, a push to revive indigenous culture The Associated Press 2015-04-20 Anica Coto SAN LORENZO, Puerto Rico (AP) — In Puerto Rico’s misty, bamboo-studded mountains, elementary school students are studying a nearly extinct language, beating on drums and growing native crops like cassava and sweet potato as they learn about the indigenous people…
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Wisconsin chief treading carefully after fatal shooting The Washington Post 2015-03-08 The Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — Within hours of a white officer shooting an unarmed black man, the police chief of Wisconsin’s capital city was praying with the man’s grandmother, hoping to strike a conciliatory tone and avoid the riots that last year rocked…
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Census Bureau may count Arab-Americans for the first time in 2020 PBS NewsHour Public Broadcasting System 2015-01-30 Jeff Karoub, Reporter The Associated Press DETROIT — The federal government is considering allowing those of Middle Eastern and North African descent to identify as such on the next 10-year Census, which could give Arab-Americans and other affected…
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Bill: New Yorkers could identify as multiracial The Associated Press 2014-11-25 Jonathan Lemire, City Hall and Political Reporter NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers may soon be able to identify themselves as more than one race under legislation introduced in the City Council on Tuesday. The measure would change dozens of official documents, including applications…
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Confederate officer’s wartime diary decoded The Associated Press 2014-10-13 Chris Carola SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — A century and a half after Confederate officer James Malbone wrote his Civil War diary partly in code, a couple of Yankees have figured out why he took the precaution: He liked to gossip. Sprinkled amid entries on camp…
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Color Lines Are Blurred in ABC Comedy ‘Black-Ish’ The Associated Press 2014-09-19 Frazier Moore, Television Writer BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Tracee Ellis Ross delivers perhaps the funniest line you’ll hear on a sitcom this fall. The character she plays on ABC’s comedy “black-ish” is, like Ross, an appealing mix of beauty, smarts and zaniness.…