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: Kwame A. Appiah
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“In Lines of Descent,” Kwame Anthony Appiah traces the twin lineages of Du Bois’ American experience and German apprenticeship, showing how they shaped the great African-American scholar’s ideas of race and social identity.
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Reconstructing Race: A Discourse-Theoretical Approach to a Normative Politics of Identity The Philosophical Forum Volume 43, Issue 1 (Spring 2012) pages 27–49 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9191.2011.00409.x Andrew J. Pierce Loyola University, Chicago The claim that race is “socially constructed” has become something of a platitude in social science and philosophy. At a minimum, such a claim means to…