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 New York Times
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Chirlane McCray and the Limits of First-Ladyship The New York Times Magazine 2016-02-09 Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times What two years in Gracie Mansion have meant for a woman who aspired to be the “voice for the forgotten voices.”…
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Yvonne Chouteau, Native American Ballerina, Dies at 86 The New York Times 2016-01-29 Jack Anderson Yvonne Chouteau, one of the five celebrated Oklahoma ballerinas with an American Indian background, in a 1963 photo. Credit Jack Mitchell/Getty Images Yvonne Chouteau, a former principal dancer of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo who emerged as one of…
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Meet the New Student Activists The New York Times 2016-02-01 As told to Abby Ellin Young African-Americans and their allies are demanding change, leading people of all backgrounds to talk about issues that have lain dormant for decades. What do they want? Inclusion and representation — now. Here, seven students talk about the problems, the…
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Ethics generally commends telling the truth. But in a situation in which our ordinary ways of thinking are at odds with reality, there can be no easy truth to be had. When it comes to race, confusion is the most intellectually defensible position. Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Can I Call My Nonbiological Twins Black Because My…
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An Artist Stands Before Her Fun House Mirror The New York Times 2016-01-06 Amanda Fortini Genevieve Gaignard, “A Golden State of Mind” installation, 2015. Credit: Eric Minh Swenson, via The Cabin LA and Diane Rosenstein LOS ANGELES — On a recent Friday afternoon, Genevieve Gaignard, a photographer, collagist and installation artist, was sitting on her…
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Black Indians Formed the First American Rainbow Coalition The New York Times 1991-03-17 To the Editor: “Census Finds Many Claiming New Identity: Indian” (front-page, March 5) discusses whites who now assert their Indian blood, but fails to mention African-Americans who can claim longer and more legitimate ties to America’s Indian heritage. Many in the New…
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Many of the Indians who now strongly assert their identities are the children or grandchildren of Indians who “passed” as white. Others were adopted into white families, and later sought to reclaim their heritage. John Homer, for example, was born 44 years ago to Indian parents in Hugo, Okla., but was adopted by a white…
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Another Win for a Player Getting in Touch With Her Japanese Roots The New York Times 2016-01-21 Ben Rothenberg Naomi Osaka signed autographs after her 6-4, 6-4 victory over 18th-seeded Elina Svitolina at the Australian Open on Thursday. Credit Issei Kato/Reuters MELBOURNE, Australia — Naomi Osaka (大坂 なおみ) liked to think she had a universal…