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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It started with “Mein Kampf.” James Q. Whitman, a specialist in comparative law at Yale University, was researching a legal-history question when he pulled Adolf Hitler’s mid-1920s manifesto from the shelf. What jumped out at Whitman was the admiration that Hitler expressed for the United States, a nation that the future Führer lauded as “the…
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When I Was White The Chronicle Review The Chronicle of Higher Education 2015-07-06 Sarah Valentine, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Sarah Valentine as a girl, with her two brothers (Source: Family photo) Rachel Dolezal’s recent unmasking as a white woman living as black sparked a debate about the legitimacy of “transracial”…
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A History of Loss The Chronicle Review The Chronicle of Higher Education 2015-02-09 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University Alexander L. Manly could have been the first victim of the bloody race riot that exploded in Wilmington, N.C., in early November 1898. Manly, publisher of the Daily Record, North Carolina’s only African-American newspaper,…