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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Thai beauty ad: ‘Just being white, you will win’ Cable News Network (CNN) 2016-01-08 Wilfred Chan (CNN)—It’s hard to imagine anything more blatant than this. A new Thai beauty ad claiming white skin is the key to success has unleashed a storm of criticism in Thailand, especially online, where people complain the ad perpetuates damaging,…
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Former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw found guilty of rape Cable News Network (CNN) 2015-12-10 Michael Martinez, Newsdesk Editor & Writer Gigi Mann (CNN) A jury found former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw guilty Thursday of some of the most serious charges against him, including sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy and rape. Holtzclaw…
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Mexico’s hidden people Cable News Network (CNN) 2015-07-10 Abby Reimer, Special to CNN Photograph: Mara Sanchez Renero (CNN)—An estimated 200,000 Africans were brought to Mexico under slavery, which ended in the country in 1829. Yet Afro-Mexicans remain a marginalized and often forgotten part of Mexico’s identity. Photographer Mara Sanchez Renero first learned about Afro-Mexicans as…
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Passing for black? Now that’s a twist Cable News Network (CNN) 2015-06-12 Lisa Respers France, Senior producer, CNN Digital (CNN)—”In this day and age who in the world willingly wants to be black?” I jokingly said that to my husband when news about Rachel Dolezal broke. Dolezal, 37, is president of the Spokane, Washington, chapter…
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Rachel Dolezal has a right to be black Cable News Network (CNN) 2016-06-16 Camile Gear Rich, Professor of Law and Sociology Gould School of Law University of Southern California (CNN)—When it comes to identity, America takes one step forward and two steps back. On Monday, Rachel Dolezal, the head of the Spokane chapter of the…
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“I’m a person of color from a biracial marriage… I am the son of a black woman who still worries about my safety from the bias and privilege and violence that accompanies it.” —Ismael Ozanne Michael Martinez, “Who is Ismael Ozanne, Wisconsin’s prosecutor in Tony Robinson’s death?,” Cable News Network (CNN), May 12. 2015. http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/12/us/ismael-ozanne-wisconsin-district-attorney-tony-robinson-case/.
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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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Why mixed-race comic was ‘born a crime’ Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-12-04 Jessica Ellis Teo Kermeliotis London (CNN) — When it comes to getting ready for a show, fast-rising South African comedian Trevor Noah has it all figured out. “My ideal setting is I walk from the streets, backstage and straight onto the stage,” says…