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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New Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel: ‘Extremely proud’ to be biracial ESPN 2022-02-11 Marcel Louis-Jacques, Miami Dolphins Reporter MIAMI — Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel, clarifying comments this week in which he said he identified “as a human being,” affirmed that his racial background is not something he simply identifies as — it’s what he is.…
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I wouldn’t have it any other way
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Misty Copeland En Pointe The Undefeated 2016-12-14 Kelley L. Carter, Senior Culture Writer Photographs by Brent Lewis Videos by Lois Nam, Senior Digital Producer America’s most famous prima ballerina heads to Cuba to represent female athleticism. (Yes, athleticism.) HAVANA, Cuba Misty Copeland is at the barre. She’s demonstrating a battement tendu to a group of…
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2015 IMPACT25 Influencer: Misty Copeland ESPN W 2015-12-07 Dimity McDowell Davis, Special to espnW.com From line sketches to pencils and final color, Marvel captured the essences of our IMPACT25 nominees and turned them into super versions of themselves. Behind Marvel’s IMPACT25 heroes » “Every time I dance, I’m trying to prove myself to myself.” —Misty…
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Sage Steele Opens Up About Being A Biracial Woman In Sports Media The Huffington Post 2015-01-21 Justin Block, Associate Sports Editor Juliet Spies-Gans, Editorial Fellow, HuffPost Joe Scarnici via Getty Images Sage Steele speaks onstage at the 2013 espnW: Women + Sports Summit at St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort on Oct. 9, 2013, in Dana…
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True Colors: Charlie Villanueva and Others Explain the Afro-Latino Experience ESPN 2015-09-10 Charlie Villanueva knows that life in the United States for many still means being judged by one’s skin color, but he’s not shy about challenging such preconceived ideas, boldly asking if the public can know who he really is by just a surface…
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Serena Williams, Tiger Woods and racial identity in sports ESPN 2015-09-05 Mike Wise, Senior Writer Mike Wise writes that Serena Williams has embraced her blackness and found a spiritual home while Tiger Woods has been proudly biracial and found a perhaps unintended kind of isolation You can’t miss the term “black excellence” pulsating through Claudia…