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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Girl in need of bone marrow highlights shortage of mixed-race donors The Chicago Tribune 2015-09-13 Vikki Ortiz Healy When doctors told Michelle Trujillo in July that her 6-year-old daughter would need a bone marrow transplant to save her life, the Crystal Lake mother didn’t want to wait another minute before getting her only child back…
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Suit filed over mix-up at Downers Grove sperm bank is dismissed The Chicago Tribune 2015-09-03 Clifford Ward A judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Ohio woman against a west suburban sperm bank whose clerical error resulted in the birth of her mixed-race daughter. DuPage County Judge Ronald Sutter tossed the suit after lawyers…
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5 black Chicagoans who passed for white The Chicago Sun-Times 2015-06-16 Kim Janssen, Staff Reporter A baseball player who broke baseball’s color line decades before Jackie Robinson was born. A pioneering politician who has a West Side school named after him. An Emmy-winning “blonde bombshell.” A poet at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance. And…
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Chicago’s Jazz Age still lives in Archibald Motley’s art The Chicago Tribune 2015-03-20 Howard Reich Where does Chicago’s Jazz Age still live? In the paintings of Archibald Motley, on view in a new exhibition Trumpets blared, saxophones thundered, singers belted and dancers swayed from nighttime to past sunup. Walk along “the Stroll” — a very…
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Jewish tent widens as diversity grows The Chicago Tribune 2014-12-16 Bonnie Miller Rubin, Reporter Ellen Zemel (left) lends a hand for a symbolic lighting of a menorah for Hanukkah during a party for parents and children of Project Esther: The Chicago Jewish Adoption Network of the Jewish Child & Family Services, at the Elain Kersten…
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Lawsuit: Wrong sperm delivered to lesbian couple The Chicago Tribune 2014-10-01 Meredith Rodriguez, Tribune reporter A white Ohio woman is suing a Downers Grove-based sperm bank, alleging that the company mistakenly gave her vials from an African-American donor, a fact that she said has made it difficult for her and her same-sex partner to raise…
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2nd Story’s “Cruel Summer” Ends Up Sweet Gapers Block Chicago, Illinois 2013-08-01 Ines Bellina The night’s theme may have been “Cruel Summer: Stories of Learning the Hard Way,” but 2nd Story‘s first-ever appearance at City Winery last Monday gave audience members the giddy feeling of a summer fling. Combining storytelling and live music against the…
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Mixed-race teens talk about identity The Mash: For teens, by teens 2012-11-15 Kaylah Sosa Homewood-Flossmoor High School, Flossmoor, Illinois Chris Pieper Whitney Young Magnet High School, Chicago, Illinois Megan Fu Buffalo Grove, Buffalo Grove, Illinois Rosemary Anguiano Whitney Young Magnet High School, Chicago, Illinois The Mash is a weekly newspaper and Web site that is…