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: Kamala Harris
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Though I am younger than Ms. Harris by six years, in her Blackness, I recognize my own. It is a Blackness born not in slavery but much later, in a whole other context, in the wake of the civil rights and Black Power movements, when there was no mixed-race category. You were either Black or…
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On Turning Black The New York Times 2024-08-01 Esau McCaulley, Contributing Opinion Writer Illustration by The New York Times; Photo: Erin Schaff/The New York Times During his interview before the National Association of Black Journalists this week, Donald Trump was asked if he would call upon his fellow Republicans to refrain from labeling Vice President…
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Even as Trump plays up racial divisions, many Americans said they would rather not dwell on race or identity. “We can all see that you’re Black.”
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The Lesser-Known Side of Harris’s Identity: Asian American The New York Times 2024-07-28 Amy Qin Kamala Harris spoke during the virtual Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Unity Summit in 2021. Erin Scott for The New York Times Some Asian American leaders are rooting for Kamala Harris to become the first Asian American president. But she…
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Republican efforts to deny Senator Harris’s identity as an African-American and turn her into a noncitizen are destined to fail.