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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Colin Kaepernick and the Question of Who Gets to Be Called a ‘Patriot’ First Words The New York Times Magazine 2016-09-12 Wesley Morris, Critic-At-Large Citizenship is citizenship, until appearances get in the way. The world now knows, for instance, that Colin Kaepernick, a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, is protesting racial injustice — all…
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The Digital Afterlife of Lost Family Photos On Photography The New York Times Magazine 2016-04-26 Teju Cole The backs of found photos from the writer’s “Mrs. X” collection. Credit Jens Mortensen for The New York Times The photographs were Polaroids, taken between the 1970s and the 2000s. Zun Lee bought them at flea markets, at…
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Chirlane McCray and the Limits of First-Ladyship The New York Times Magazine 2016-02-09 Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times What two years in Gracie Mansion have meant for a woman who aspired to be the “voice for the forgotten voices.”…
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Ethics generally commends telling the truth. But in a situation in which our ordinary ways of thinking are at odds with reality, there can be no easy truth to be had. When it comes to race, confusion is the most intellectually defensible position. Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Can I Call My Nonbiological Twins Black Because My…
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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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The Fabulous World of Harumi Klossowska de Rola The New York Times Magazine 2015-09-22 Hilary Moss “Benoît, my partner, took this photo in 2013 in front of the Grand Chalet, which was a hotel until my father bought it. It is still loaded with thousands of books and even old skis from English clients. My…
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I am where I am today only because men and women like Rosanell Eaton refused to accept anything less than a full measure of equality. Their efforts made our country a better place. It is now up to us to continue those efforts. Congress must restore the Voting Rights Act. Our state leaders and legislatures…