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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White people have been passing for black for centuries. A historian explains. Vox 2015-06-15 Dara Lind, Jetpack Comandante The story of Rachel Dolezal — the now-former Spokane NAACP president whose parents have claimed she’s white — has opened up an enormously complicated debate about race and identity in general, and blackness in America in particular.…
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Oreo, Topdeck and Eminem: Hybrid identities and global media flows International Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 14, Nubmer 2 (March 2011) pages 153-172 DOI: 10.1177/1367877910387971 Jane Stadler, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies University of Queensland, Australia The slang terms Oreo (someone who looks black but acts white) and Topdeck (someone who looks white…