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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LOS ANGELES — When Bobby Webster took the stage as a guest speaker at the U.S.-Japan Council’s annual conference earlier this month, the moderator introduced him as a world champion and a “hapa.”
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And like tennis superstar Naomi Osaka, Hachimura’s fast-growing fame is raising the profile of biracial sportspeople in a homogeneous country where mixed-race children still face prejudice.
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But it was Green’s last point, mentioned almost as an aside – “And of course, Steph is light-skinned so [players] want to make him out to be soft” – that got the most attention.
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NBA Star Amar’e Stoudemire Is Moving to Israel — Because He’s a Hebrew Israelite Forward 2016-08-01 Sam Kestenbaum, Staff Writer This week, basketball star Amar’e Stoudemire ended a celebrated 14-year career with the NBA. The six-time All-Star spent most of his career with the Phoenix Suns and the New York Knicks, before finishing with the…
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Former Duquesne, Penn State athlete Cumberland Posey elected to Basketball Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2016-04-05 Stephen J. Nesbitt, Beat Writer Courtesy of the Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, N.Y. Will become only person inducted into both professional basketball, baseball halls of fame The grass-roots campaign to get Cumberland “Cum” Posey enshrined in the…
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Why Is There No “Linsanity” Over LA Lakers’ Jordan Clarkson? Psychology Today 2016-05-09 E. J. R. David Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology University of Alaska, Anchorage Lack of hype on NBA star may reflect larger issues in Asian American community May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. May is also when the National Basketball Association…
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1-on-1 with Gopher basketball star Rachel Banham FOX 9, KMSP-TV Eden Prairie, Minnesota 2016-02-27 Hobie Artigue, Reporter MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) – University of Minnesota senior Rachel Banham has been the best player to watch in the Twin Cities on the basketball court and is the toast of the Big Ten. Watch Fox 9’s Hobie Artigue hit…
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Hapa Hoops: Japanese American Basketball and Community with Rex Walters Japanese American National Museum 100 North Central Avenue Los Angeles, California, 90012 Saturday, 2013-06-22, 14:00 PDT (Local Time) Join us as we explore the experiences of Hapa Japanese Americans and their experiences in Japanese American basketball leagues. Hapa Hoops will feature a screening of JANM’s…