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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Chirlane McCray and the Limits of First-Ladyship The New York Times Magazine 2016-02-09 Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times What two years in Gracie Mansion have meant for a woman who aspired to be the “voice for the forgotten voices.”…
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Al Sharpton says some criticism of de Blasio is related to his mixed race family The New York Daily News 2016-01-05 Jennifer Fermino, City Hall Bureau Chief The Rev. Al Sharpton thinks that some of Mayor de Blasio’s woes stem from his mixed race family. Speaking Tuesday morning at an interfaith breakfast, Sharpton said that…
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Williams: A positive among the attack ads in the Gecker-Sturtevant race Richmond Times-Dispatch Richmond, Virginia 2015-11-02 Michael Paul Williams, Columnist During the 2000 Republican primary in South Carolina, John McCain was the target of a whisper campaign that he’d fathered a black child out of wedlock. McCain, who in reality had an adopted Bangladeshi daughter,…
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Bill de Blasio, Chirlane McCray are now empty nesters as daughter goes to college The New York Daily News 2015-09-17 Jennifer Fermino, City Hall Bureau Chief Chiara de Blasio, seen here with her mom, First Lady Chirlane McCray, left for college on Thursday. David Wexler/New York Daily News The city’s First Family is officially empty…
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Is NYPD’s War on Mayor Bill de Blasio Partly War on His Black Family? AlterNet 2014-12-30 Terrell Jermaine Starr, Senior Editor The cops’ fight with the city’s progressive mayor smacks of white supremacy. In September 1992, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association organized thousands of New York City cops to storm City Hall to protest then-mayor David…
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Sleeping with the enemy Sick Chickens: A blog for enthusiasts of American history and politics 2014-12-23 James Owen Heath, PhD Candidate University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom I have never been struck by the intelligence of Jon Stewart’s remarks in the past but I have to agree with him that it is indeed possible to…
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In discussing Garner, de Blasio invokes Dante Capital New York New York, New York 2014-12-03 Sally Goldenberg, City Hall/Politics Reporter Mayor Bill de Blasio often invoked his bi-racial teenage son, Dante, during an emotional speech on Staten Island Wednesday night, hours after a grand jury there declined to indict an NYPD officer in the death…
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Bill De Blasio Responds To Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision The Huffington Post 2014-12-03 Sam Levine, Associate Politics Editor New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) said Wednesday that a grand jury’s decision not to indict a police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner was a decision “that many in our city…
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Bill: New Yorkers could identify as multiracial The Associated Press 2014-11-25 Jonathan Lemire, City Hall and Political Reporter NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers may soon be able to identify themselves as more than one race under legislation introduced in the City Council on Tuesday. The measure would change dozens of official documents, including applications…
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The Mixed-Race Marriage of Bill de Blasio and Chirlane McCray Georgetown Law Journal of Modern Critical Race Perspectives Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2013-12-08 Harris Davidson On November 5, Bill de Blasio, New York City’s public advocate, was elected Mayor of New York City. De Blasio’s victory had been all but assured since he prevailed in…