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: Amber Rambharose
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There’s no such thing as half-white or half-black. There’s no such thing as equality in America. Amber Rambharose, “My Whiteness And My Blackness Are Not Reconcilable.” RaceBaitR, August 25, 2015. http://racebaitr.com/2015/08/25/my-whiteness-and-my-blackness-are-not-reconcilable/.
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Almost any given object can be split in half with each half making up 50% of whole. I can only think of one exception. When someone asks if I am half black or half white, I don’t want to give the comfortable response they are looking for. Any answer would imply that my Whiteness and…