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: Brookings Institution
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Older white Americans still hold most of the economic and political power in the US. But the great ethnic diversity of younger generations means that change is coming.
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Black-white mixed race identity rises in the South The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. 2015-08-12 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow As shown in my book, “Diversity Explosion,” the growth of black-white marriages in the United States is unmistakable, as are the gains in the population that identifies itself as “white and black,” particularly among the very…
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Multiracial marriages are dispersing across the country The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. 2015-06-18 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow As I discuss in my book, “Diversity Explosion,” the geographic dispersion of minority populations from traditional melting-pot regions to the rest of the country sets the stage for the dispersion of multiracial marriages as well. To be…
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Our rising white-black multiracial population The Avenue / Rethinking Metropolitan America The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. 2015-02-23 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program The fastest growing racial group in the country is those who identify themselves as “two or more” races. Yet, perhaps most encouraging, as discussed in my book Diversity Explosion, is…