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 history of interracial sex: It’s much more than just rape or romance. The Los Angeles Times 2015-09-28 Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Carina Ray is associate professor of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University and the author of “Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex,…
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On the use of “Slave Mistress” AAIHS: African American Intellectual History Society 2015-08-21 Emily Owens The passing of the great civil-rights leader Julian Bond earlier this week ignited a firestorm of activity on Twitter. Historians of African American women’s history noticed and commented on something suspect in Bond’s obituary, a brief line embedded within: in…
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Times Regrets ‘Slave Mistress’ in Julian Bond’s Obituary The New York Times 2015-08-20 Margaret Sullivan, Public Editor After Julian Bond’s death on Saturday, The Times published a lengthy and well-written obituary summing up the life and work of the civil rights champion. But many readers were bothered by a single sentence in the front-page article:…