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 Anthony Appiah
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Our ethnic and racial categories drape loosely around the realities of our complex lives. I am the son of an English woman and a Ghanaian man. I am an American citizen. Am I a black American? African-American? Anglo-American? Anglo-African?
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Society still largely operates under the misapprehension that race (largely defined by skin colour) has some basis in biology. There is a perpetuating idea that black-skinned or white-skinned people across the world share a similar set of genes that set the two races apart, even across continents. In short, it’s what Appiah calls “total twaddle”.…
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Ethics generally commends telling the truth. But in a situation in which our ordinary ways of thinking are at odds with reality, there can be no easy truth to be had. When it comes to race, confusion is the most intellectually defensible position. Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Can I Call My Nonbiological Twins Black Because My…
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Kwame Anthony Appiah: The Complexities of Black Folk The Stone The New York Times 2015-04-16 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Law and Philosophy New York University Kwame Anthony Appiah This is the 10th in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting…
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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…