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: World War II
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What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis—arguably the “brains” behind U.S. fascism—was born black but spent his entire adult life passing for white?
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Leo Branton Jr., Activists’ Lawyer, Dies at 91 The New York Times 2013-04-27 William Yardley Associated Press Leo Branton Jr. with Angela Davis during her 1972 trial on murder, kidnapping and conspiracy charges. She was acquitted. Leo Branton Jr., a California lawyer whose moving closing argument in a racially and politically charged murder trial in…
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Virgil Westdale: Farm Boy, Pilot, Soldier, Inventor, Author, and Gentleman Japanese American National Museum Stories 2010-09-09 Esther Newman Virgil Westdale’s exceptional life story might never have been published had he not attended a Halloween dance. Unsure of what to wear, the World War II veteran donned his Army uniform of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team,…
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Blue Skies and Thunder: Farm Boy, Pilot, Inventor, TSA Officer, and WW II Soldier of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team iUniverse 2009-12-21 296 pages E-Book ISBN: 978-1-44018-258-7 Virgil W. Westdale with Stephanie A. Gerdes In 1942, Virgil Westdale was a successful young flight instructor when the government ousted him from the Air Corps and demoted…
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It’s Not Always Black And White: Caught Between Two Worlds Outskirts Press 2013-01-18 100 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781478716693 John Reed, Ph.D. John Reed knows from experience how difficult the life of a biracial person can be. He was born in Germany after World War II to a German-Caucasian mother and an African-American father. The difficulty…
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Children of the Occupation Radio National Big Ideals Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2013-03-11 For a decade following the end of the Second World War, foreign troops occupied Japan. During that time, thousands of mixed race children were born, the result of relationships between the occupying servicemen – Australians, Americans, Brits – and Japanese women. What became…