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: Irish Times
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Book review: Marguerite Penrose writes about her experiences as a mixed-race girl growing up in Dublin
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Growing up as a black person with a disability in Dublin, Marguerite Penrose sensed her difference
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This delicately observed portrait of racial dynamics is worth seeing in the cinema
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Black Irish Lives: Multiculturalism is seen as new. But Ireland has generations of mixed-race people
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‘Ireland brought us back together’
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London play ‘Hashtag Lightie’ puts the spotlight on mixed-race identity
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“I’m mixed race. I identify as a black woman from Ireland, who is quite pale,” she laughs. “The only heritage I ever had was Irish heritage.” [Lorraine] Maher is aware of her other ancestry, “but it is not important at the moment for me”, she says… Anthea McTeirnan, “‘Growing up in Ireland I was the…
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A new exhibition in London challenges the perceptions of what Irish people look like
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Tim Brannigan, a real black Irish republican The Irish Times Dublin, Ireland 2016-05-28 Fionola Meredith When Tim Brannigan was born his mother persuaded a doctor to declare him a stillbirth. Then she gave him to an orphanage – coming back a year later to ‘adopt’ the son she couldn’t admit she’d had. After that he…