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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Eric Garcetti invokes Latino-Jewish ancestry in mayor’s race The Los Angeles Times 2013-01-02 Michael Finnegan Working a recent breakfast gathering of business owners in Northridge, Los Angeles mayoral contender Eric Garcetti introduced himself in Hindi when a Sikh businessman approached. A few hours later, Garcetti donned a colorful Peruvian headpiece with ear flaps as he…
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Mexico’s black history is often ignored Los Angeles Times 2008-04-13 John L. Mitchell, Times Staff Writer In Mexico, the story of the country’s black population has been largely ignored in favor of an ideology that declares that all Mexicans are “mixed race.” But it’s the mixture of indigenous and European heritage that most Mexicans embrace;…
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White and mixed-race youths rank high in alcohol, substance abuse Los Angeles Times 2011-11-07 Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times/For the Booster Shots blog The first-ever survey of adolescent alcohol and drug abuse to recognize youths of mixed race or ethnicity has found that such kids hover closest to white adolescents in the rate at which…