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: Judith Phagan
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It is probably doing a disservice to ourselves as Americans to oversimplify issues that cannot, by their very nature, be simple. I have shared examples of passing in America that demonstrate that this behavior is neither new nor unusual. Yes, the image of Rachel Dolezal has meaning. She is consciously constructing blackness with, I believe,…
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Passing in the Age of Rachel Dolezal, or Is Everyone Catfishing? Response: The Digital Journal of Popular Culture Scholarship Issue One (November 2016) Judy Phagan, Associate Professor of English St. Joseph’s College, New York Rachel Doležal It was revealed in the New York Times and on national television in the summer of 2015 that Africana…