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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Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750–1860 Cambridge University Press September 2014 326 pages 25 b/w illus. 6 maps 7 tables 236 x 157 x 22 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781107052864 Paperback ISBN: 9781107674745 eBook ISBN: 9781139990660 Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Professor of History Ohio State University, Newark A case…
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“We Called That Touch” Boston Review 2016-03-28 Ed Pavlić, Professor of English and Creative Writing University of Georgia Race and the Intimate Tangle of American Experience It might seem to you that I am white. Then again, depending upon how and where we meet—and upon things in your life I know nothing about—it might seem…
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BEST OF 2015: Not Quite White Madison365 Madison, Wisconsin 2015-12-29 Matthew Braunginn Matthew Braunginn I may never be able to truly “pass” or to be “race neutral.” I have always been and always will be “not quite white.” I reject those terms because I have been othered on their terms. I can never fully fit…
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Tony Robinson’s mother files civil rights lawsuit over fatal police shooting of son The Guardian 2015-08-13 Zoe Sullivan Andrea Irwin alleges officer Matt Kenny violated 14th amendment equal protection rights and fourth amendment right against unreasonable searches The mother of a biracial man killed by a white police officer in Madison, Wisconsin, has filed a…
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Who is Ismael Ozanne, Wisconsin’s prosecutor in Tony Robinson’s death? Cable News Network (CNN) 2015-05-12 Michael Martinez, Newsdesk Editor & Writer (CNN) Ismael Ozanne wiped a handkerchief across his forehead, nervously tapped a stack of papers on the podium and slowly cleared his throat. It wasn’t the first time he’d made history; that happened in…
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No Charges for Wisconsin Officer in Killing of Unarmed Black Teenager The New York Times 2015-05-12 Richard Pérez-Peña (@perezpena), National Desk A Madison, Wis., police officer who killed an unarmed black man in March, in one of a spate of similar incidents that have set off protests around the country, will not face criminal charges,…
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Madison Police Shooting: Not Just About Race Because Victim Was Biracial, Family Says ABC News 2015-03-09 Meghan Keneally, Digital Reporter The uncle of the 19-year-old who was fatally shot by a police officer in Madison, Wisconsin, over the weekend said that his nephew “just wanted to be loved.” Tony Robinson Jr., who was known to…