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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Asian, American, Woman, Philosopher The Stone The New York Times 2015-04-06 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Emily S. Lee, Associate Professor of Philosophy California State University, Fullerton This is the ninth in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation is…
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Trevor Noah to Succeed Jon Stewart on ‘The Daily Show’ The New York Times 2015-03-30 Dave Itzkoff, Culture Reporter In December, Trevor Noah, a 31-year-old comedian, made his debut as an on-air contributor on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” offering his outsider’s perspective, as a biracial South African, on the United States. “I never…
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Alabama Shakes’s Soul-Stirring, Shape-Shifting New Sound The New York Times Magazine 2015-03-18 Joe Rhodes With its highly anticipated second album, this band of small-town misfits finally has a ticket out — not that they would ever leave. In the upstairs dressing room at the Georgia Theater in Athens, Ga., in January, Alabama Shakes was getting…
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Don’t Starve the Census The New York Times 2015-03-10 The Editorial Board Some Republicans in Congress are calling for cuts to the Census Bureau’s budget that would impair the agency’s already strained ability to gather basic data. An accurate census is essential to determining the correct number of representatives from each state, the effectiveness of…
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Man Shot Dead by Police After Scuffle in Wisconsin The New York Times 2015-03-07 Ashley Southall A 19-year-old Wisconsin man was shot and killed Friday by a police officer during a scuffle inside an apartment in Madison, police officials said. The shooting prompted protests that continued on Saturday and led officials to call for restraint…
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Gordon Fox Pleads Guilty in Rhode Island Corruption Case The New York Times 2015-03-03 Richard Pérez-Peña The climb took decades, but the fall was swift. Less than a year removed from his reign as speaker of the Rhode Island House, Gordon D. Fox pleaded guilty on Tuesday to taking bribes, wire fraud and filing a…