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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“I have some Chinese roots, I’m mestizaje [mixed].”
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But there’s something about this place that sets it apart in the borderlands. You might notice it first in the Chinese restaurants dotting the streets, in the elaborate pagoda that sits at the border with Calexico, or in the doorways downtown with subtle, sometimes faded, Chinese lettering.
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On passing, wishing for darker skin, and finding your people: A conversation between two mulattos Fusion 2015-06-15 Collier Meyerson In 10th grade, I auditioned for the role of Julie in the musical Show Boat, one of the most famous portrayals of the tragic mulatto trope. I was cast, instead, as Queenie, the mammy. I deserved…
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This web series asks black women around the world to explain what beauty means to them Fusion 2016-06-02 Tahirah Hairston Courtesy of Un-Ruly They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but that’s not the impression you’d get from flipping through a fashion magazine. The images we see in mainstream media every day…
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How street kids in the Bronx taught me it’s OK to be biracial and gay Fusion 2016-05-18 Terry Blas As a “nerdy, Mexican, gay, Mormon child of the ’80s and ’90s,” cartoonist Terry Blas had trouble figuring out his identity… until an experience in New York taught him a valuable lesson. … Read the entire…
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Who gets to be Native American? Fusion 2016-03-11 Anna Pulley “Inhumane.” “Dishonorable.” “Genocide.” These were just a few of the dozens of Sharpied comments written on the hands of indigenous activists recently, as they launched a grassroots, social-media movement against tribal disenrollment, which is when a tribal government throws out its own members. The campaign,…
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For Artur Santoro, 21, identifying as black is about being honest with himself—a process similar to coming out as gay. “I had to come out of the closet twice—once as gay, and once as black,” Artur tells me. He says growing up with a white dad and a “light-skinned black” mom made it difficult to…
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Mexico ‘discovers’ 1.4 million black Mexicans—they just had to ask Fusion 2015-12-15 Rafa Fernandez De Castro For the first time in its history, Mexico’s census bureau has recognized the country’s black population in a national survey that found there are approximately 1.4 million citizens (1.2% of the population) who self-identify as “Afro-Mexican” or “Afro-descendant.” The…