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: Alaina E. Roberts
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Two leading scholars discuss the complex relationship between Black and Native people.
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Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of “40 acres and a mule”—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In “I’ve Been Here All the While,” we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this…
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According to Alaina Roberts of the University of Pittsburgh, Native American nations “have always had this fear, and a valid fear, that when they accept black people as part of their tribe they are seen as not ‘Indian first’.” Caleb Gayle, “The black Americans suing to reclaim their Native American identity,” The Guardian, November 2,…