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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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,…
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What Woodrow Wilson Cost My Grandfather The New York Times 2015-11-25 Gordon J. Davis, Partner Venable, LLP, New York, New York John Abraham Davis, center, and his family at their farm in the early 1900s. Credit Courtesy of the Davis Family OVER the last week, a growing number of students at Princeton have demanded that…
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Agriculture Linked to DNA Changes in Ancient Europe The New York Times 2015-11-23 Carl Zimmer The agricultural revolution was one of the most profound events in human history, leading to the rise of modern civilization. Now, in the first study of its kind, an international team of scientists has found that after agriculture arrived in…
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THINK TANK; Uncovering an Interracial Literature of Love . . . and Racism The New York Times 2004-04-17 Emily Eakin The word miscegenation entered America’s bitter racial politics and the national lexicon by way of an ambitious hoax. On Christmas Day in 1863, an anonymous 72-page pamphlet appeared on newsstands around New York City. Titled…
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An African King in Bolivia The New York Times 2015-11-17 David Gonzalez, Side Street Columnist; Lens Blog Co-Editor King Don Julio Pinedo being helped by his son, Rolando Pinedo, the prince, into a royal cloak. Queen Angelica oversees the details of her husband’s royal dress. Don Julio is shy and does not feel comfortable dressing…