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: Lorraine Maher
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Black Irish Lives: Multiculturalism is seen as new. But Ireland has generations of mixed-race people
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FOR the first time during Black History Month, an exhibition celebrating mixed race Irish has gone on display in the London Irish Centre.
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WHEN she was growing up in County Tipperary in the 1960s, Lorraine Maher (pictured) met no other black people and on the few occasions they came into her midst she would avoid them.
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“I’m mixed race. I identify as a black woman from Ireland, who is quite pale,” she laughs. “The only heritage I ever had was Irish heritage.” [Lorraine] Maher is aware of her other ancestry, “but it is not important at the moment for me”, she says… Anthea McTeirnan, “‘Growing up in Ireland I was the…
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A new exhibition in London challenges the perceptions of what Irish people look like