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: New York City
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James Blake doesn’t want NYPD cop who tackled him to ‘ever have a badge and gun again’ The New York Daily News 2015-09-12 Wayne Coffey, Special Reporter Rich Schapiro, Staff Writer Retired tennis star James Blake said Saturday the NYPD cop who brutally wrestled him to the ground should be served his walking papers. “I…
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James Blake and the Myth of an Unarrestable Black Man The Daily Beast 2015-09-10 Tomás Ríos Bill Bratton said race ‘had nothing at all to do’ with tennis star James Blake’s wrongful collaring and arrest. The numbers tell a different story. What does a non-white person have to do for the police to leave them…
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The twisted irony of the NYPD wrongly assaulting and detaining black tennis star James Blake The Daily Kos 2015-09-10 Shawn King Yeah. This really happened. Retired black tennis star James Blake, in an NYPD double-fault, was slammed to a Manhattan sidewalk and handcuffed by a white cop in a brutal case of mistaken identity. The…
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Police Tactics in Harsh Glare After Arrest of James Blake The New York Times 2015-09-10 Benjamin Mueller, Al Baker and Liz Robbins A New York Police Department officer was stripped of his gun and badge as Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William J. Bratton issued swift apologies on Thursday for the rough arrest…
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New Bill Would Let New Yorkers Identify As Multiracial On Official City Forms The Huffington Post 2015-05-12 Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias), New York Reporter New York City has the largest population in the United States of people who identify as multiracial. Even its mayor, Bill de Blasio, and its first lady, Chirlane McCray, have two multiracial…
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Wickham: Silence of NYC’s good cops widens divide USA Today 2014-12-30 DeWayne Wickham, Distinguished Professor of Journalism and Dean School of Journalism Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland When Mayor Bill de Blasio stepped to the podium Saturday to eulogize Rafael Ramos, one of two New York City cops killed by a black gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley,…
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Is NYPD’s War on Mayor Bill de Blasio Partly War on His Black Family? AlterNet 2014-12-30 Terrell Jermaine Starr, Senior Editor The cops’ fight with the city’s progressive mayor smacks of white supremacy. In September 1992, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association organized thousands of New York City cops to storm City Hall to protest then-mayor David…
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Museum Offers Interactive Oral History of Mixed Race Brooklynites NY1 News New York, New York 2014-12-29 Jeanine Ramirez, Brooklyn Reporter A new interactive website offers an interracial, multi-ethnic view of Brookynites. NY1’s Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report. Deborah Schwartz clicks on the latest resource at the Brooklyn Historical Society, an oral history project about…
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Sleeping with the enemy Sick Chickens: A blog for enthusiasts of American history and politics 2014-12-23 James Owen Heath, PhD Candidate University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom I have never been struck by the intelligence of Jon Stewart’s remarks in the past but I have to agree with him that it is indeed possible to…
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Popup cafe uses derogatory drink names in bid to get people talking about race New York Daily News 2014-12-17 Ben Kochman The bizarre java joint offers drinks with derogatory names like “The Half Breed” and “The Mutt,” which organizers insist will help start a helpful conversation about race, even if some are offended. (Ben Kochman/New…