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 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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The Mixed Marriage The New York Times 2014-01-11 Interview by Lise Funderburg Lise Funderburg, a journalist, interviewed Yael Ben-Zion, a photographer raised in Israel, about her new book, “Intermarried,” published by Kehrer, which features families from the Washington Heights neighborhood where she lives with her French husband and 5-year-old twins. Q. What inspired this project?…
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The New York Times and NPR Are Still Clueless About Latinos Alisa Valdes: Official Website for Writer and Producer Alisa Valdes 2014-01-03 Alisa Valdes More than a decade ago, when I worked as a staff writer for two of the nation’s top newspapers (The Boston Globe and the LA Times), I was often disappointed to…
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Surprises in the Family Tree The New York Times 2004-01-08 Mitchell Owens John Archer first appears in Northampton County, Va., in the mid-17th century. He started a family that prospered, fought in the Revolutionary War and built a mansion. Generations later, Archer’s blood trickled down to me. It mingled in my veins with DNA from…
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De Blasio Sworn In as New York Mayor The New York Times 2014-01-01 Michael M. Grynbaum Bill de Blasio was sworn in as the 109th mayor of New York City early Wednesday, at two minutes past the stroke of midnight. The oath of office was administered by Eric T. Schneiderman, the attorney general of New…
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De Blasio’s Daughter Reveals Substance Abuse The New York Times 2013-12-24 Javier C. Hernandez and Michael M. Grynbaum Chiara de Blasio, right, with her parents in September. Michael Appleton for The New York Times Days before her father’s inauguration, the 19-year-old daughter of Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio disclosed a history of drug and alcohol abuse…
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Surprising New Face in Arabic Music The New York Times 2013-12-03 Linsay Crouse Jennifer Grout Sings Umm Kulthum Hits on ‘Arabs Got Talent’ The Arab world has an unlikely new star: an American who sings — but barely speaks — Arabic. Not only that, her genre is traditional Arab music. Plucking her oud, an Arabic…
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The Johnstons’ friends seemed to realize that the family had not been passing as white, but as Americans. Robert McG. Thomas, Jr., “Thyra Johnston, 91, Symbol Of Racial Distinctions, Dies,” The New York Times, November 29, 1995. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/29/us/thyra-johnston-91-symbol-of-racial-distinctions-dies.html.
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In its multifaceted view of blackness, “(1)ne Drop” implies that no racial category is inviolable. To identify as white, for example, is no less complicated. Although whiteness typically serves as a racial default that is rarely publicly examined or named, even today it is no more absolute than blackness. The privileges it bestows can be…
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Thyra Johnston, 91, Symbol Of Racial Distinctions, Dies The New York Times 1995-11-29 Robert McG. Thomas, Jr. (1939-2000) Thyra Johnston, a blue-eyed fair-skinned New Hampshire homemaker who became a symbol of the silliness of racial distinctions when she and her husband announced that they were black, died on Nov. 22 at her home in Honolulu.…