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: Eric Garner
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“Along with my personal identity struggles, the historical legacy of racism in the United States for communities of color informs my experiences. My current work responds to the police killings of unarmed Black men, women, and children across America. While this is a constant attack on the Black community, the increased international media attention, public…
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I Don’t See Race; I Only See Grayish-Brown, Vaguely Humanoid Shapes The Onion Issue 50•49, 2014-12-12 Janice Ketchum I don’t understand why everyone seems to be so angry lately. Everywhere you look, there are marches, protests, riots—and all of it over so-called racism in our great country. I just don’t get it. I really don’t.…
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I’m black, British and just moved to New York. After the Eric Garner decision, I can’t breathe The Guardian London, United Kingdom 2014-12-06 Lanre Bakare, Commissioning Editor Guardian US, New York, New York Before I moved to the US, I knew their names: Rodney King. Michael Stewart. Trayvon Martin. Vonderrit Myers Jr. Kajieme Powell. I…
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Mayor Bill De Blasio Speaks On Eric Garner, NYPD, And More On Ebro In The Morning [AUDIO] HOT 97, WQHT 97.1 FM New York, New York 2014-12-04 Ebro Darden, Co-Host Peter Rosenberg, Co-Host Laura Stylez, Co-Host It’s an emotional time in NYC and across the nation after a grand jury decided to not indict NYPD…
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In discussing Garner, de Blasio invokes Dante Capital New York New York, New York 2014-12-03 Sally Goldenberg, City Hall/Politics Reporter Mayor Bill de Blasio often invoked his bi-racial teenage son, Dante, during an emotional speech on Staten Island Wednesday night, hours after a grand jury there declined to indict an NYPD officer in the death…