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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A small plaque marks the spot where the man believed to be Britain’s first black school teacher educated children in a Scottish village.
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Merle Oberon, a Hollywood star of the black and white era, is a forgotten icon in India, the country of her birth.
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What happened to the British children born to black GIs? BBC News 2022-01-29 Eldridge says he would have loved to have met his father MARTIN GILES/BBC Eighty years ago, US soldiers began arriving in the UK to help in the fight against Hitler’s Nazi Germany. In a small sleepy village in Suffolk, life was about…
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The governor of Louisiana has pardoned Homer Plessy, a 19th century black activist whose arrest 130 years ago led to one of the most criticised Supreme Court decisions in US history.
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Ruth Negga stars in “Passing,” a film which follows two black women living in 1920s New York.
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Phil Wang, the stand-up comic you may recall for his viral video spoofing a Tom Hiddleston advert, has been baring his soul, or at least some of it, in his new book “Sidesplitter.”
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Gail Lukasik’s life was turned upside down when she discovered her mother was mixed race but had ‘passed’ as white to escape racial segregation in the US.
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In the middle of the last century, thousands of students from African countries were studying at Irish universities. Some had children outside marriage, who were then placed in one of Ireland’s notorious mother and baby homes. Today these children, now adults, are searching for their families.
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US Senator Kamala Harris – chosen by Joe Biden as his Democratic vice-presidential candidate – is known as a prominent black politician. But she has also embraced her Indian roots.