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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Why white liberals need to figure out how to talk about race KUOW.org: 94.9 FM, Seattle News & Information 2017-01-06 By Katherine Banwell & Jamala Henderson Professor Ralina Joseph at the University of Washington says to just start talking about race. University of Washington Why is race so hard to discuss? Ralina Joseph, founding director…
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“Please select one”: Growing up with a multiracial identity The Seattle Globalist 2016-11-31 Jaya Duckworth, Senior Garfield High School, Seattle, Washington Jaya Duckworth (second from right) and friends hold signs showing pride in multiracial identities at a school district-wide walkout in protest of the election of Donald Trump. (Photo courtesy Jaya Duckworth.) Race: Please select…
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BrownBox Theatre and Sound Theatre Company to Present Encore Reading of BLACK LIKE US Broadway World 2016-11-05 BWW News Desk To celebrate the publication of the play Black Like Us, BrownBox Theatre joins forces with Sound Theatre Company to present an “encore” staged reading of the Gregory Award Winning Play at the Langston Hughes Performing…
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From Raised Eyebrows To Raised Curtains: Rachel Atkins Tackles Racial Identity KUOW.org 94.9 FM: Seattle News & Information Seattle, Washington 2014-02-27 Marcie Sillman, Arts and Culture Reporter Actresses Kia Pierce and Marquicia Dominguez in Rachel Atkins’ play, “Black Like Us.” Credit Courtesy of Annex Theatre/Shane Regan When Rachel Atkins was 7, she and her sisters…
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‘Raising Mixed Race’: An Evening with Sharon H. Chang and Tangerine The Seattle Public Library Central Library Level 1 – Microsoft Auditorium 1000 Fourth Avenue Seattle, Washington 98104-1109 Thursday, 2016-09-29, 19:00-21:00 PDT (Local Time) Join us for an author talk, and live music by Seattle band Tangerine, to celebrate the final stop of Sharon H.…
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Seattle’s multiracial identity evolves along with census The Seattle Times 2016-08-18 Gene Balk Now that Americans can select more than one racial category, we rank high nationally in terms of multiracial population and percentage. TODAY — WHEN NEARLY 10 million Americans identify as multiracial — it’s strange to think that just a few decades ago,…
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Helping mixed-race Asian kids navigate a world that isn’t post-racial The Seattle Times 2016-03-16 Jerry Large, Columnist Sharon H. Chang is author of “Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Children in a Post-Racial World.” (Courtesy of Sheila Addleman) Seattle author writes about the challenges of raising multiracial Asian children in America and helping then overcome racial biases.…
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Mixed but not matched: Being mixed-race in America The Daily Evergreen Washington State University Pullman, Washington 2016-01-21 Sophia Stephens, Evergreen columnist The experience of being a mixed-race person in America can be described in one word – mixed. Depending on how a mixed-race person looks and is perceived, the experience of being an ethnic or…
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DEMING, Whatcom County — In his big gray truck, Gabriel Galanda makes a notable entrance into a Nooksack tribal-housing development of a couple dozen modest homes, set on a winding road about a half-hour east of Bellingham. Many of the residents, members of a sprawling clan who move easily in and out of each other’s…
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Raising Mixed Race: Seattle author shows realities facing multiracial children The Seattle Globalist 2015-12-09 Sharon H. Chang The day my mixed race son was born in 2009 was a turning point for the way I thought about race. Despite living for decades as a multiracial person myself, suddenly I started asking deeper questions about race,…