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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My choice, if you can call it that, to identify as black is much different from that of, say, my father or even my own sister, whose skin is at least three shades darker than mine. The eagerness with which people gravitate toward me is not shown to many of the other black people I…
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Rachel Dolezal’s ‘Passing’ Isn’t So Unusual The New York Times Magazine 2015-06-15 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennesee Daniel J. Sharfstein is the author of “The Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America.” Why do we care so much about Rachel Dolezal, the head of the Spokane, Wash., chapter…
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Proving My Blackness The New York Times Magazine 2015-05-24 Mat Johnson I grew up a black boy who looked like a white one. My parents divorced when I was 4, and I was raised mostly by my black mom, in a black neighborhood of Philadelphia, during the Black Power movement. I put my dashiki on…
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Alabama Shakes’s Soul-Stirring, Shape-Shifting New Sound The New York Times Magazine 2015-03-18 Joe Rhodes With its highly anticipated second album, this band of small-town misfits finally has a ticket out — not that they would ever leave. In the upstairs dressing room at the Georgia Theater in Athens, Ga., in January, Alabama Shakes was getting…
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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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The Bots Are Taking Over The New York Times Magazine 2013-12-20 Julie Bosman Photographs by Rebecca Smeyne Mikaiah and Anaiah Lei, the brothers from Los Angeles who make up the band the Bots, have been writing and playing rock songs together for seven years. Now 20 and 17, they are on the cusp of stardom…
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Soledad O’Brien Is Betting on Jeff Zucker The New York Times Magazine 2012-12-18 Andrew Goldman Your memoir made your experience growing up in Smithtown, a largely white town on Long Island, sound like a huge drag. It really wasn’t. It is truly not fun to be the family that sticks out in an all-white community.…
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A First Time for Everything The New York Times Magazine The Lives They Lived 2011-12-22 Isabel Wilkerson While poring over the Web site Legacy.com to prepare this issue, we noticed a trend. A search of the site’s database — which includes obituaries from more than 750 newspapers across the country—turned up hundreds of obits published…