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: DeNeen L. Brown
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But Markle, whose mother is black and whose father is white, may not be the first mixed-race royal.
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‘An offer of my heart’: A story of black love after the Civil War The Washington Post 2016-09-08 DeNeen L. Brown, Reporter One hundred and forty-four years after they were written, the civil rights advocate found the letters in the bottom of an old suitcase, stacked in thin envelopes and tied together by a faded,…
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Danielle Evans, an author straddling racial divides Washington Post 2010-10-07 DeNeen L. Brown, Staff Writer It is the tale of a biracial girl who is sent by her mother one summer to visit her white grandmother. But the grandmother immediately disapproves of her daughter’s child with the brown skin and long, curly hair. “If I…