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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[Kelly] Curtis is biracial. “My skin tone challenges the notion of being Black in America and what that carries,” she added. She knows when the world sees her, people may not view her as someone who fits their preconceived notion of a skeleton athlete, an Olympian or a Black woman. “I’m either not Black enough…
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Meet the first Black skeleton athlete to compete for the U.S. at the Olympics National Public Radio 2022-02-10 Jaclyn Diaz, Reporter Kelly Curtis stands next to the Olympic rings. She’s competing in the skeleton competition at the Beijing Olympics. IBSF BEIJING — Skeleton is a heart-racing, adrenaline-fueled event where a single racer flies face-first down…