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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Colin Kaepernick and the Question of Who Gets to Be Called a ‘Patriot’ First Words The New York Times Magazine 2016-09-12 Wesley Morris, Critic-At-Large Citizenship is citizenship, until appearances get in the way. The world now knows, for instance, that Colin Kaepernick, a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, is protesting racial injustice — all…
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Wrestling with the labels that outsiders put upon him fuelled his interest in style, in clothes, and in labels that come from Paris and Milan. “My interest in fashion probably would have developed anyway,” he continues. “But all this stuff made me ask myself in a really focused way: ‘What do I represent?’ And you know…
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Black Like Him: Colin Kaepernick And Race The Games Men Play: Sports. Culture. Sex. 2016-08-31 Georgette Gouveia “Only in America could a conversation about racial oppression devolve into one black millionaire calling out a biracial millionaire for not knowing what’s it’s like to be truly oppressed.” So posted Mark Thomas on an ESPN thread about…
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What Colin Kaepernick’s Protest Looks Like to a Black 49ers Fan The New York Times 2016-08-31 Gerald Harris, President and Managing Director The Quantum Planning Group, San Francisco, California Colin Kaepernick Credit Ben Margot/Associated Press San Francisco — Why are we, as sports fans, continually surprised when one of our heroes turns out to be…
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There is nothing unusual in this. There is no tension, no hypocrisy, no contradiction, between [Colin] Kaepernick being a black person of unusual status, fame, and financial success and his demand that the United States treat black people equally. African Americans are a hybrid people, he is nowhere near the first black man of mixed…
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Colin Kaepernick’s True Sin The Atlantic 2016-08-30 Adam Serwer, Senior Editor The San Francisco quarterback has been attacked for refusing to stand for the Star Spangled Banner—and for daring to criticize the system in which he thrived. It was in early childhood when W.E.B. Du Bois––scholar, activist, and black radical––first noticed The Veil that separated…
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Jones: Kaepernick, Lochte cases are as different as black and white The Philadelphia Inquirer 2016-08-30 Solomon Jones SAN FRANCISCO 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick sits down during the national anthem to protest America’s treatment of people of color, and he is accused of being a traitor to his country. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte is facing criminal…
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The San Francisco 49ers quarterback on bucking expectations, riding out the haters and how he does it all with a healthy dose of style