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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Irish Immigrants and the Underground Railroad Medium 2015-07-02 Liam Hogan A Ride for Liberty — The Fugitive Slaves, oil on paperboard, ca. 1862, Brooklyn Museum But the Irish are indeed a strange people. How varied their aspect — how contradictory their character. William Wells Brown (1852) What William Wells Brown should have said was “the Irish are human.” The…
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“People that look like me that break windows, flip cars, and light things on fire are protected by infantilizing comments that state: “boys will be boys,” absolving them of any responsibility. Whereas people that look like my father are shot in the back as they run away, choked to death, or have their necks broken.”…
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Why I Passed For White The Archipelago: Stories about community, identity, and the ongoing quest to belong. Medium 2014-12-19 Shawna Ayoub Ainslie I erased my own heritage to feel safe. I hope to teach my children not to do the same. When I was 16, I started letting people believe that I was white. In…
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Fake Diversity and Racial Capitalism Medium 2014-11-23 Nancy Leong, Professor of Law Sturm College of Law University of Denver For decades now, it’s been fashionable for institutions of all kinds to showcase their racially diverse constituencies. This is true even when the institution in question has been sued for discrimination on the basis of race,…