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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‘A Tale of Two Plantations,’ by Richard S. Dunn Sunday Rook Review The New York Times 2015-01-02 Greg Grandin, Professor of History New York University Dunn, Richard S., A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014). For enslaved peoples in the New World, it was…
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Edward Brooke, Pioneering U.S. Senator in Massachusetts, Dies at 95 The New York Times 2015-01-03 Douglas Martin Edward W. Brooke III, who in 1966 became the first African-American elected to the United States Senate by popular vote, winning as a Republican in overwhelmingly Democratic Massachusetts, died on Saturday at his home in Coral Gables, Fla.…
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Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell (Born 1921): Teaching America that black was beautiful. The Lives They Lived The New York Times Magazine 2014-12-25 Touré DeVore-Mitchell during her modeling days. Photograph by Rupert Callender from the DeVore family archive One day in 1946, a black woman showed up at the Vogue School of Modeling in New York, seeking to…
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Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell, 92, Dies; Redefined Beauty The New York Times 2014-03-13 Margalit Fox Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell Credit MARBL/Emory University, via Associated Press Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell, a former model, agent, charm-school director and newspaper publisher who almost single-handedly opened the modeling profession to African-Americans, and in so doing expanded public understanding of what American beauty looks like, died…
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White? Black? A Murky Distinction Grows Still Murkier The New York Times 2014-12-24 Carl Zimmer In 1924, the State of Virginia attempted to define what it means to be white. The state’s Racial Integrity Act, which barred marriages between whites and people of other races, defined whites as people “whose blood is entirely white, having…
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Do Races Differ? Not Really, Genes Show The New York Times 2000-08-22 Natalie Angier, Science Columnist In these glossy, lightweight days of an election year, it seems, they can’t build metaphorical tents big or fast enough for every politician who wants to pitch one up and invite the multicultural folds to ”Come on under!” The…
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The Talk: After Ferguson, a Shaded Conversation About Race The New York Times 2014-12-13 Dana Canedy, Senior Editor LIKE so many African-American parents, I had rehearsed “the talk,” that nausea-inducing discussion I needed to have with my son about how to conduct himself in the presence of the police. I was prepared for his questions,…