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: Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal
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My point of departure begins with the social and political fact of being both a Black woman who is Jewish and a Jewish woman who is Black in order to undermine the presupposition of inherent cultural or racial differences that favors the vocabulary of mixed or hybrid identities over the conjunction [both.. and]. Instead of…
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Second Glances: Two African-American Women Take a Closer Look at their Jewish Identities Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal Volume 13, Number 2 (Autumn 2008) pages 52-63 Amy André Nzinga Koné-Miller This conversation is co-written by two African American women, one who converted to Judaism and one who was born Jewish. They dialogue about the differences…