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: Hapa Japan
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Often, I find that the Japanese mother is happy to know that their “American” child is interested in Japanese-ness. I do know a few mothers who also became angry with their children for being interested in finding their Japanese roots.
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We are not only personal identities. We represent so much more. And in this way, each of us is quite powerful and agents of change, whether we feel responsible to this or not. And in this way, the ignorance we may carry, will also play its role in the forming of culture, little by little,…
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In focusing on my mother and myself, it came one day in a dream. Just as the opening scene in my book presents, I am suddenly woken up in the middle of the night to write: みずこ 水子 ミズコ (mizuko) on a notepad I pull out from the bedside drawer.