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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“I am who I am. I’m good with it. You might need to figure it out, but I’m fine with it.”
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Race has long been a potent way of defining differences between human beings. But science and the categories it constructs do not operate in a political vacuum.
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But contrary to popular narratives, interracial heterosexual relationships and their result, multiracial children, are not the antithesis of white supremacy, but can be easily co-opted as the glittery mask behind which racism and antiblackness continue to thrive. To be clear, though, interracial relationships themselves are not under critique here. The danger, rather, is in how…
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How Tessa Thompson Became A Modern Marvel BuzzFeed 2016-07-20 Anita Badejo, Associate Features Editor At a time when Hollywood is finally developing the kinds of projects for actors of color that had traditionally been out of reach, Tessa Thompson’s ascent to the A-list isn’t just welcome — it’s necessary. How can she embody this pivotal…
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12 British Poets Share Their Favourite Poems For #NationalPoetryDay BuzzFeed 2015-10-08 Fiona Rutherford, BuzzFeed News Reporter London, England …3. Rachel Long Amaal Said Age: 26 Themes in your work: Sexuality, growing up, hurt, mixed parentage, love, eating disorders, death, dreams. Favourite poem: Impossible to choose. I’ve sat here for a half hour with fingers over…
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They Pretend To Be Us While Pretending We Don’t Exist BuzzFeed 2015-09-11 Jenny Zhang, BuzzFeed Contributor Will Varner / BuzzFeed White poet Michael Derrick Hudson’s use of the Chinese pen name Yi-Fen Chou was an act of yellowface that is part of a long tradition of white voices drowning out those of color in the…
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Why Rachel Dolezal Needed To Construct Her Own Black Narrative BuzzFeed 2015-06-13 Adam Serwer, BuzzFeed News National Editor In order to pass as black, Dolezal took advantage of the black community’s long tradition of inclusion regardless of skin tone. In 1895, when Justice Henry Billings Brown ruled that Louisiana’s law segregating train cars was constitutional,…
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Why You Can Kiss My Mulatto Ass BuzzFeed 2015-05-26 Mat Johnson, BuzzFeed Contributor “The recent re-emergence of mulatto identity isn’t about race, it’s about actively acknowledging a multiethnic reality in a simplistically racialized world.” Yo, I’m a mulatto. And I have to tell you, it’s great. I was black for most of my life, which…