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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Texas woman discovers she’s white after 70 years KHOU Houston, Texas 2015-06-22 Marvin Hurst, Reporter KENS 5 TV, San Antonio, Texas Byrd with her adoptive family. (Photo: (Photo: Family Photograph)) The mere mention of Rachel Dolezal’s name sets Verda Byrd off like a stick of dynamite. “She lied about her race,” Byrd said. “I didn’t…