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: Daniel Hernandez
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One of the most stubborn aspects of America’s racial imagination is the insistence on having a term to separate and identify people of Latin American descent. It’s a minefield of geography, color and language since we can be of any race and have few things in common beyond some degree of adherence to the Spanish…
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Like many of its awkward predecessors, “Latinx” does not work. Its experimental “x” opens too many linguistic floodgates. And why is this kind of label necessary at all?