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: Mark Whitaker
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Born Along the Racial Fault Line The New York Times 2011-11-06 Janet Maslin My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir By Mark Whitaker. Illustrated. 357 pages. Simon & Schuster. As a social studies major in his junior year at Harvard, Mark Whitaker attended a debate on the subject of ethnicity. One participant was the chairman…
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“My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir,” by Mark Whitaker The Washington Post 2011-10-14 Jonathan Yardley, Critic Now in his mid-50s, Mark Whitaker has had an impressive journalistic career. Fresh out of Harvard in the late 1970s, he went to work at Newsweek and rose steadily through various assignments, eventually becoming its editor. In 2006…
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My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir Simon and Schuster October 2011 368 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 1451627548; ISBN-13: 9781451627541 eBook ISBN-10: 1451627564; ISBN-13: 9781451627565 Mark Whitaker In a dramatic, moving work of historical reporting and personal discovery, Mark Whitaker, award-winning journalist, sets out to trace the story of what happened to his parents, a fascinating…