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: Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
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‘War Brides of Japan’ To Take Focus in New Documentary NBC News 2016-08-10 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Journalist and filmmaker Yayoi Lena Winfrey is looking for more Japanese “war brides” to interview as she completes the filming for her feature-length documentary film, “War Brides of Japan.” With many of these women in their mid-80s, Winfrey said…
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Diving Into Race, Identity of Multiracial Families In ‘Raising Mixed Race’ NBC News 2015-12-31 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Sharon H. Chang’s son with a copy of Kip Fulbeck’s “Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids.” Photograph Courtesy of Sharon H. Chang Scholar and activist Sharon H. Chang’s new book, “Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial…
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‘We Are Not Alone’: Festival Celebrates Multiracial America NBC News 2015-06-12 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Nearly 700 people from across the country—including artists, writers, comedians, musicians, multiracial and multicultural families—are expected to gather at the Mixed Remixed Festival on June 13 at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, to celebrate the stories and lives…
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The First Multiracial Miss Universe Japan Has Been Crowned NBC News 2015-03-17 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang The stunning Miss Nagasaki, Ariana Miyamoto, is the first multiracial contestant ever to be crowned Miss Universe Japan and will represent Japan in the 2015 Miss Universe pageant. Born in Japan to a Japanese mother and African American father, Miyamoto…
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‘Hapa-palooza’ Celebrates Canada’s Mixed-Heritage Residents NBC News 2014-09-22 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Vancouver is gearing up for the Hapa-palooza Festival, the world’s largest celebration of mixed heritage and hybrid identity, to be held at locations throughout the city this month. The word “hapa” usually means a person who is part Asian or Pacific Islander, but festival…