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: Emma Dabiri
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However, though my mum’s Irish, my father is Nigerian. I am not white! This fact, one that I had never even considered before I returned to the land of a thousand welcomes, now became the defining feature of my existence. I remember that first week or so back in Dublin, when I was sent out…
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I’m Irish but I’m not white. Why is that still a problem as we celebrate the Easter Rising? The Guardian 2016-03-29 Emma Dabiri With an Irish mother and Nigerian father, I grew up singing Irish rebel songs. But the racism I experienced was not part of the dreams of 1916’s revolutionaries I grew up singing…
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Black hair is finally fashionable. But on whose terms? – video The Guardian 2016-03-09 Emma Dabiri Growing up with afro hair can be traumatic, especially when white ideals of beauty are everywhere. But, says Emma Dabiri, black women are increasingly letting their natural hair out, and the ‘fro is becoming fashionable. But, she argues, they…
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Why Zoe Saldana was the wrong black woman to play Nina Simone The Telegraph 2016-03-04 Emma Dabiri With her long silky hair and brown tan skin, Zoe Saldana may well be black. But is she “black enough” to play Nina Simone? Some people seem to think not. Ms Simone’s surviving family have asked Saldana, who…
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Dating stories project Black Girl Dancing at Lughnasa 2016-01-28 Emma Dabiri In continuing on the work of Who Stole All the Black Women from Britain?, I am collecting stories about race and dating for an exciting new project. I want to hear your experiences of dating within and outside your racial group. Do black men…
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Thanks, Belle, it’s nice to see a face like mine on screen The Guardian (The Observer) 2014-06-07 Ashley Clark In giving top billing to Gugu Mbatha-Raw, the film Belle makes a real contribution to raising awareness of the mixed-race experience My heart leaps whenever I see the poster for Amma Asante’s new film, Belle, high…