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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She ran boardinghouses whose lodgers included members of New York’s elite, raised money for an orphan asylum and was active in the abolitionists’ cause.
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Kinship of Clover, A Novel Red Hen Press 2017-04-04 272 pages 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches Paperback ISBN: 9781597093811 Ellen Meeropol He was nine when the vines first wrapped themselves around him and burrowed into his skin. Now a college botany major, Jeremy is desperately looking for a way to listen to the plants…
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Re Jane: A Novel Pamela Dorman Books (an imprint of Penguin Random House) 2015-05-05 352 Pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0525427407 Paperback ISBN: 978-0143107941 Patricia Park For Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she’s been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet vulnerable, Jane toils, unappreciated, in her strict uncle’s…
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I Feel Guilty for Being Able to ‘Pass’ as a Person of Color Kveller 2016-02-18 Elana Rabinowitz Brooklyn, New York He called me negra. Not mami or guapa, but what translates to “black woman.” I wasn’t offended. More confused. The thing is, I’m really just a white Jewish girl from Brooklyn. There, I said it.…
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Bombay To Brooklyn: New York’s Indian Jews Strive To Preserve Heritage News India Times New York, New York 2015-12-14 Ela Dutt, Managing Editor Siona Benjamin. Photo by Sami studio Siona Benjamin, a greater New York City artist, hangs her “very typical” Indian Jewish Mezuzah, a prayer scroll in an engraved casing, on her door to…
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Something Old, Something New BBC Radio 4 2015-10-06 Johny Pitts, Host Peter Meanwell, Producer Recorded & mixed! Finished @BBCRadio4 (Engineer Steve Hellier with Johny Pitts) Source: Peter Meanwell From Sheffield to South Carolina, Johny Pitts explores alternative Black British identity. What happens when your Dad’s an African-American soul star [Richie Pitts] and your Mum’s a…
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Brooklyn is: Feature of the Week [Beth Consetta Rubel] Brooklyn Artistry Brooklyn, New York 2015-02-02 The latest and greatest untouched talent of the borough. Being a biracial woman from the South we wanted to know what it was like for Beth Consetta Rubel as an artist. So many things can be triggering for an artists…
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On the Trail of Brooklyn’s Underground Railroad The New York Times 2007-10-12 John Strausbaugh LAST month the City of New York gave Duffield Street in downtown Brooklyn an alternate name: Abolitionist Place. It’s an acknowledgment that long before Brooklyn was veined with subway lines, it was a hub of the Underground Railroad: the network of…