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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Mayor de Blasio Has Lost Support of White New Yorkers, Poll Finds The New York Times 2015-11-18 Michael M. Grynbaum, City Hall Bureau Chief Alexander Burns, Political Correspondent Dalia Sussman, Polling Editor Nearing the midpoint of his term, Mayor Bill de Blasio is confronting a city that is deeply divided about his ability to lead,…
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Amber Guild of Collins: Call Out the Elephant in the Room The New York Times 2015-11-14 Adam Bryant, Corner Office Columnist and Deputy Science Editor This interview with Amber Guild, president of Collins, a brand consultancy, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What were some early influences for you? A. I grew up…
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Rescuing Discarded Images of Everyday Black Life The New York Times 2015-10-20 David Gonzalez, Side Street Columnist Who throws away family photos? How do faded, blurry squares that chronicled weddings, ballgames and goofy moments at home end up abandoned, tossed to the curb or in boxes bought sight unseen at storage auctions? Zun Lee has…
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Before Obama ran for president, when we tended to talk about racial identity, we did so as the defense of a settlement. Black was understood to be black, nontransferably. Negro intellectuals — Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray and James Baldwin, for starters — debated strategies for equality and tolerance. Some of them asserted that to…
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The Invisible Asian The New York Times 2015-10-07 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia David Haekwon Kim, Associate Professor of Philosophy University of San Francisco This is the latest in a series of interviews about philosophy of race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation is with David Haekwon Kim, an…
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Grace Lee Boggs, Human Rights Advocate for 7 Decades, Dies at 100 The New York Times 2015-10-05 Robert D. McFadden Ms. Boggs and her husband, James. Credit LeeLee Films, Inc. Grace Lee Boggs, one of the nation’s oldest human rights activists, who waged a war of inspiration for civil rights, labor, feminism, the environment and…
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Review: Trevor Noah Keeps ‘Daily Show’ DNA in Debut The New York Times 2015-09-29 James Poniewozik, Television Critic The post-Jon Stewart version of “The Daily Show” that Trevor Noah and Comedy Central unveiled on Monday night was a bit like a new iPhone. It was sleeker, fresher and redesigned. There were tweaks here and there…
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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…