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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In an interview about the events last week that happened to my youngest son, I said that it takes an incident like this to make me truly realize that two of my sons are black. Betty Blake, “EXCLUSIVE: Race relations in America are ‘getting worse,’ says James Blake’s mother Betty, a white Briton who raised…
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Betty Blake, 80, is the mother of retired tennis star James Blake. Betty, who is white and grew up in England, talks about raising two sons who are black.
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James Blake doesn’t want NYPD cop who tackled him to ‘ever have a badge and gun again’ The New York Daily News 2015-09-12 Wayne Coffey, Special Reporter Rich Schapiro, Staff Writer Retired tennis star James Blake said Saturday the NYPD cop who brutally wrestled him to the ground should be served his walking papers. “I…
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James Blake and the Myth of an Unarrestable Black Man The Daily Beast 2015-09-10 Tomás Ríos Bill Bratton said race ‘had nothing at all to do’ with tennis star James Blake’s wrongful collaring and arrest. The numbers tell a different story. What does a non-white person have to do for the police to leave them…
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The twisted irony of the NYPD wrongly assaulting and detaining black tennis star James Blake The Daily Kos 2015-09-10 Shawn King Yeah. This really happened. Retired black tennis star James Blake, in an NYPD double-fault, was slammed to a Manhattan sidewalk and handcuffed by a white cop in a brutal case of mistaken identity. The…
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Police Tactics in Harsh Glare After Arrest of James Blake The New York Times 2015-09-10 Benjamin Mueller, Al Baker and Liz Robbins A New York Police Department officer was stripped of his gun and badge as Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William J. Bratton issued swift apologies on Thursday for the rough arrest…