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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Tony Collins, Football Master Spy Book Guild Publishing Ltd 2016-10-27 270 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781910878934 Quentin Cope & Sarita Collins The English Football League’s First Black Manager This is the story of the English football league’s first black manager. Tony Collins was a young man, born into disadvantaged circumstances, in a time period between two…
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Focus on world’s first black football star The Voice 2016-10-16 Poppy Brady Dr Tony Talburt decided that a book on Guyanese-born footballer Watson was seriously overdue, so he set about researching the background of this exceptional pioneer of the beautiful game HE WAS the world’s first black football superstar, but the name Andrew Watson is…
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Today, seeing Black footballers playing the game at the very highest level is considered very normal. This, certainly, was not the case one hundred and forty years ago, and this is what makes the story of Andrew Watson so remarkable.
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Black Like Him: Colin Kaepernick And Race The Games Men Play: Sports. Culture. Sex. 2016-08-31 Georgette Gouveia “Only in America could a conversation about racial oppression devolve into one black millionaire calling out a biracial millionaire for not knowing what’s it’s like to be truly oppressed.” So posted Mark Thomas on an ESPN thread about…
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What Colin Kaepernick’s Protest Looks Like to a Black 49ers Fan The New York Times 2016-08-31 Gerald Harris, President and Managing Director The Quantum Planning Group, San Francisco, California Colin Kaepernick Credit Ben Margot/Associated Press San Francisco — Why are we, as sports fans, continually surprised when one of our heroes turns out to be…
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Colin Kaepernick’s True Sin The Atlantic 2016-08-30 Adam Serwer, Senior Editor The San Francisco quarterback has been attacked for refusing to stand for the Star Spangled Banner—and for daring to criticize the system in which he thrived. It was in early childhood when W.E.B. Du Bois––scholar, activist, and black radical––first noticed The Veil that separated…
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Jones: Kaepernick, Lochte cases are as different as black and white The Philadelphia Inquirer 2016-08-30 Solomon Jones SAN FRANCISCO 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick sits down during the national anthem to protest America’s treatment of people of color, and he is accused of being a traitor to his country. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte is facing criminal…