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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DNA Shows Warren Harding Wasn’t America’s First Black President The New York Times 2015-08-18 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — Bill Clinton was called the first black president because he crossed racial lines so easily, a distinction he lost when Barack Obama became the first actual black president. But for decades, some Americans…
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Julian Bond, Former N.A.A.C.P. Chairman and Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 75 The New York Times 2015-08-16 Roy Reed Julian Bond, a charismatic figure of the 1960s civil rights movement, a lightning rod of the anti-Vietnam War campaign and a lifelong champion of equal rights for minorities, notably as chairman of the N.A.A.C.P., died on…
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‘Key & Peele’ Ends While Nation Could Still Use a Laugh The New York Times 2015-08-15 Dave Itzkoff, Culture Reporter Jordan Peele, left, and Keegan-Michael Key in a scene from the final season of “Key & Peele.” Credit Comedy Central The scene is a hauntingly familiar one: A white police officer stalks an unarmed black…
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DNA Is Said to Solve a Mystery of Warren Harding’s Love Life The New York Times 2015-08-12 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — She was denounced as a “degenerate” and a “pervert,” accused of lying for money and shamed for waging a “diabolical” campaign of falsehoods against the president’s family that tore away…
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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…
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Walter White, 61, Dies in Home Here The New York Times 1955-03-22 Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, died last night of a heart attack at his home at his home, 242 East Sixty-eighth Street. He was 61 years old. Last October he twice entered the New…
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Q. What have you learned about race while working on this documentary? A. That the conversation has just started. And a lot of the time it’s framed as black and white. Well, where do Latinos and Asians fit in that conversation? Where do biracial people fit into that conversation? Where do multiracial people fit into…