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: Ireland
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As a child in a white Anglo-Irish family, Georgina Lawton’s curiosity about her dark skin colour was constantly brushed aside. Only when her father died did the truth surface
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Ruth Negga: ‘Stories about race and identity pique my interest… I have always felt like a fish out of water’ The Belfast Telegraph 2016-12-31 Patricia Danaher Starring role: Ruth Negga’s career is going from strength to strength Nominated for a Golden Globe, tipped for an Oscar and on the cover of Vogue, Ruth Negga is…
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FOR the first time during Black History Month, an exhibition celebrating mixed race Irish has gone on display in the London Irish Centre.
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WHEN she was growing up in County Tipperary in the 1960s, Lorraine Maher (pictured) met no other black people and on the few occasions they came into her midst she would avoid them.
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‘We were the unspoken story of Ireland’ BBC News 2016-10-13 The #IamIrish exhibition in north London explores what it means to be mixed race and Irish. Watch the video (00:02:21) here.
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‘I shouldn’t have to defend my Irishness’ – tackling the identity struggles faced by mixed race Irish The Irish Post 2016-10-10 Erica Doyle Higgins, Digital Reporter The above image of Lorraine Maher Faissal as a child is the main image of the #IAmIrish Project. (Picture: Lorraine Maher Faissal) FOR the first time a photography exhibition…
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“I’m mixed race. I identify as a black woman from Ireland, who is quite pale,” she laughs. “The only heritage I ever had was Irish heritage.” [Lorraine] Maher is aware of her other ancestry, “but it is not important at the moment for me”, she says… Anthea McTeirnan, “‘Growing up in Ireland I was the…
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A new exhibition in London challenges the perceptions of what Irish people look like
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Black History Month – #IMIRISH Exhibition Launch London Irish Center 50-52 Camden Square London, United Kingdom, NW1 9XB 2016-10-06 through 2016-10-31, 19:00 BST (Local Time) #Iamirish a Photography Exhibition launching a series of workshops and debates linking those of mixed race heritage to their Irish family ancestry. The Exhibition will be opened by Dan Mulhall,…