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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Color film was built for white people. Here’s what it did to dark skin Vox 2015-09-18 Estelle Caswell The biased film was fixed in the 1990s, so why do so many photos still distort darker skin? For decades, the color film available to consumers was built for white people. The chemicals coating the film simply…
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America’s largest multiracial group doesn’t think of itself that way Vox 2015-06-18 Jenée Desmond-Harris People who have both white and Native American heritage make up America’s biggest multiracial group. But they’re the least likely to embrace the label. This is one of the findings of a Pew Research Center study that took an incredibly detailed…
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White people have been passing for black for centuries. A historian explains. Vox 2015-06-15 Dara Lind, Jetpack Comandante The story of Rachel Dolezal — the now-former Spokane NAACP president whose parents have claimed she’s white — has opened up an enormously complicated debate about race and identity in general, and blackness in America in particular.…
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Was pro baseball’s first African-American player passing for white? Vox 2015-04-11 Jenée Desmond-Harris William Edward White on the 1879 Brown baseball team. White is in the second row, seated and wearing a hat. (Source: Brown University Archives via Slate) A story about professional baseball’s little-known first black player (well, possible first black player) raises as…
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6 things I wish people understood about being biracial Vox 2015-03-11 Jenée Desmond-Harris, Race, Law, and Politics Reporter According to the results of a DNA test I took recently, my ancestors on my father’s side are mostly from West Africa (via Arkansas), and the ones on my mom’s side come from Europe. When strangers inquire…
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How a biracial woman grew up thinking she was white Vox 2014-11-19 Jenée Desmond-Harris When Lacey Schwartz was accepted to Georgetown University, the school saw her photo and passed her name along to the black student association. The organization contacted her. The only issue: Schwartz had grown up in a Jewish household in Woodstock New…