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: New York Times
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At a Santo Domingo Hair Salon, Rethinking an Ideal Look The New York Times 2015-12-30 Sandra E. Garcia On my first trip back to the Dominican Republic in 10 years, as I wandered down the streets of La Zona Colonial, I noticed how their names were weighted with history. Calle de las Damas, a street…
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How Green Was My Surname; Via Ireland, a Chapter in the Story of Black America The New York Times 2003-03-17 S. Lee Jamison Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Shaquille O’Neal! So many African-Americans have Irish-sounding last names—Eddie Murphy, Isaac Hayes, Mariah Carey, Dizzy Gillespie, Toni Morrison, H. Carl McCall—that you would think that the long story…
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The Tax Sleuth Who Took Down a Drug Lord The New York Times 2015-12-25 Nathaniel Popper, Wall Street Reporter Gary Alford, a special agent with the I.R.S., pored over old blog posts and chat room logs that led, eventually, to Dread Pirate Roberts. Cole Wilson for The New York Times Gary L. Alford was running…
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Going Silent: Augusta Chiwy (B. 1921) The Lives They Lived (2015) The New York Times Magazine 2015-12-16 Ruth Padawer, Adjunct Professor of Journalism Columbia University, New York, New York Augusta Chiwy as a nursing student, front row center, at St. Elisabeth Hospital in Leuven, Belgium, in 1943. Credit: Photograph from Martin King She saw so…
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Augusta Chiwy, ‘Forgotten’ Wartime Nurse, Dies at 94 The New York Times 2015-08-25 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent Augusta Chiwy was honored in 2011 for saving Americans during World War II. Credit Eric Lalmand/European Pressphoto Agency Augusta Chiwy, a Belgian nurse whose unsung bravery in saving countless American soldiers wounded in the Battle of the…
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The Rise and Rise of Misty Copeland The Year in Style 2015 The New York Times 2015-12-18 Ruth La Ferla This year, Misty Copeland’s fame rose from her performances in ballet, on Broadway and in commercials. Credit Bon Duke for The New York Times, taken at Steps on Broadway in New York City. Captivating a…
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Whiteness is not a kinship or a culture. White people are no more closely related to one another, genetically, than we are to black people. American definitions of race allow for a white woman to give birth to black children, which should serve as a reminder that white people are not a family. What binds…
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‘Black-ish’ Star Yara Shahidi Is a Role Model Off-Screen The New York Times 2015-11-27 Hannah Seligson Ms. Shahidi, 15, won the N.A.A.C.P. Image Award for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series this year. Credit Emily Berl for The New York Times “Life as a teenager can be down right chaotic,” the actress Yara Shahidi,…