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: Charles Michael Byrd
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Black/white Americans essentially fall into two camps. The first are those who quickly began searching for a higher truth allowing them to make sense of the madness behind lumping human beings into separate and distinct racial groupings. They fundamentally agree with Toomer. The second faction views its European ancestry and the attendant colonialist history as…
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Spirituality can help us to transcend race consciousness The Orlando Sentinel Orlando, Florida 2015-09-02 Charles Michael Byrd, Guest columnist As someone whom society views as racially mixed, traversing a spiritual path was indispensable for me to achieve happiness by resolving the internal conflicts arising from America’s obsession with the politics of racial identity.. Ultimately the…
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OMB’s Preliminary Recommendation & an IV Commentary Interracial Voice [1995-2003] July 1997 Charles Michael Byrd The Office of Management and Budget announced last Wednesday (07-09-97) that Americans could choose more than one racial category on Census and other federal forms but would have no new “multiracial” box to check under new rules the agency proposed.…
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Why the multiracial community must march on July 20! Interracial Voice [1995-2003] July 1996 Charles Michael Byrd Any group needs and deserves to know why someone makes a particular decision, especially when that person asks them to act upon that decision, to contribute and participate. So, too, you need to understand the reasons behind the…