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: New York Times
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The Next Great Migration The New York Times 2015-03-01 Thomas Chatterton Williams PARIS — AT dinner last summer with my brother-in-law, a grandson of Jews who fled Algeria for France, the conversation turned to the rash of anti-Semitic incidents plaguing the country. At such times, the question inevitably arises in the minds of many Jews:…
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Review: ‘An Octoroon,’ a Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Comedy About Race The New York Times 2015-02-26 Ben Brantley, Chief Theater Critic Walking on a stage covered with cotton balls is a tricky business. It’s all too easy to slip into a pratfall. And forget about running or dancing or hopping like a bunny, as the characters sometimes…
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In France, a Baby Switch and a Test of a Mother’s Love The New York Times 2015-02-24 Maïa de la Baume GRASSE, France — When Sophie Serrano finally held her daughter, Manon, in her arms after the newborn, suffering from jaundice, had been placed under artificial light, she was taken aback by the baby’s thick…
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Building a Face, and a Case, on DNA The New York Times 2015-02-23 Andrew Pollack The police in Columbia, S.C., released this sketch of a possible suspect based on DNA left at the crime scene. Parabon NanoLabs, which made the image, has begun offering DNA phenotyping services to law enforcement agencies. There were no known…
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Is the Defendant White or Not? The New York Times 2015-01-23 Nour Kteily, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University Sarah Cotterill, Doctoral Student Department of Psychology Harvard University AS jury selection continues in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the defendant in the Boston Marathon bombings, so does debate about…
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Tracee Ellis Ross: ‘That Hurt Like the Bejesus’ The New York Times 2015-01-22 Tracee Ellis Ross Credit Pej Behdarvand for The New York Times The actress talks with Jenna Wortham about defining her own sense of beauty and humor. It’s awards-show season. Do you like going to the shows? I didn’t actually go to the…
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A Multiethnic Movement Emerges in Guyana to Counter Politics-as-Usual The New York Times 2015-01-17 Girish Gupta GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Swaying to the rhythms of Afro-Guyanese reggae, the protesters, descendants of African slaves and indentured laborers from India, gathered on the streets of Georgetown in a show of unity against the country’s president. A few years…