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 trouble with ‘passing’ for another race/sexuality/religion… The Guardian 2014-01-02 Koa Beck Brooklyn, New York The broadening of the definition historically used for those of mixed-race who ‘passed’ as white exposes the power of privilege “Racial passing“, or “passing”, was originally coined to define the experience of mixed raced individuals, particularly in America, who were…