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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When society sees my mixed race children as merely “a lighter shade of black”, it does them a disservice The Independent 2015-11-24 Dawn Jarvis My daughter says to me, “Nobody has ever said to me ‘Do you feel white?” I am a divorced black woman with two mixed race children. Do I want my mixed…