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: Jaya Saxena
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I have three different racial identities—white, Indian, and multiracial. It is not that I present as one more than the others; they are all whole and complete, and I am all of them. I identify as white when people blame white people for racism and call for them to be better, and as the Indian…
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Every time someone guesses wrong, I am the one to apologize.
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Learning your history is forced reckoning, asking you to consider whose stories you carry with you and which ones you want to carry forward.
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Identity In Pieces: When You Don’t Know Where You Count The Aerogram: A curated take on South Asian art, literature, life and news 2014-10-01 Jaya Saxena Queens, New York Last summer, I wore a pink and yellow sari to my cousin’s wedding. As my Indian family lingered in the hotel lobby, dressed up and waiting…
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The Five Stages of Being Biracial (If You’re Me) The Toast 2013-10-21 Jaya Saxena 1. Denial It wasn’t that the idea of being biracial frustrated me, it was just that I didn’t think I was it. Yes, I finally learned to write “Jaya Saxena,” but to a blank-slate of a five-year-old that combination of letters…