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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The New Creole Movement Jambalaya Magazine & Clothing 2015-01-08 Julia Dumas There is a movement brewing. It is a movement with a mission to reclaim Louisiana Creole culture. Many Louisianians have been scarred by a painful past full of racism and colorism. Darker people were banned from claiming Creole heritage, if unable to pass the…
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My Family Passed for White (A Hidden Secret) Jambalaya Magazine & Clothing 2014-11-02 Julia Dumas, Culture Blogger One Culture, Many Colors One of my earliest memories is attending church with my Dumas family in Saint John the Baptist Parish. It was a small, white building of the Protestant denomination. Us children were gathered together in…