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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The San Francisco 49ers quarterback on bucking expectations, riding out the haters and how he does it all with a healthy dose of style
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Colin Kaepernick explains why he sat during national anthem NFL News National Football League 2016-08-27 Steve Wyche, NFL Media Reporter SANTA CLARA, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has willingly immersed himself into controversy by refusing to stand for the playing of the national anthem in protest of what he deems are wrongdoings…
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Colin Kaepernick Protests National Anthem Over Treatment of Minorities ABC News 2016-08-27 Michael Edison Hayden San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem during a preseason game Friday out of protest against America’s treatment of “black people and people of color.” Kaepernick told NFL media he made his own decision…
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UCLA receiver Thomas Duarte proud of biracial heritage Los Angeles Daily News 2013-11-25 Jack Wang, Staff Reporter The smell hits him three or four blocks away. Thomas Duarte is coming back from a run around his Orange County neighborhood, and the day is hot enough that the windows of his house have been cracked open.…
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Brendon Ayanbadejo, Baltimore Ravens Linebacker, Talks Gay Marriage And LGBT Rights The Huffington Post 2012-09-12 Michelangelo Signorile Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo is going “full steam ahead” after his battle with Maryland legislator C. Emmett Burns Jr., who last week wrote a letter calling on the team’s owner to silence Ayanbadejo regarding his public advocacy…
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Standing Up at an Early Age The New York Times 2012-09-14 Adam Himmelsbach Views on Gay Rights of Ravens’ Ayanbadejo Are Rooted in Upbringing In recent weeks, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo has been praised in many quarters for supporting the legalization of same-sex marriage. His stance is not new, but it reached a wider…