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: Meghan Markle
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Meghan Markle, colorism and the archetype of the ‘tragic mulatto’ The Washington Post 2022-09-04 Karen Attiah, Columnist Meghan Markle in New York on Sept. 23. (Seth Wenig/AP) Aug. 31 marked the 25th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana in a car crash in Paris in 1997. Also killed were her Egyptian lover, Dodi Al…
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[Meghan] Markle’s frankness should be applauded as brave in a nation that still fails to fully acknowledge the roughly 7% of us who claim multiple races. Indeed, either through erasure or denial, American media—both social and traditional—seem to insist that biracial folks like myself simply do not exist. David Kaufman, “Meghan Markle is the biracial…
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Something that may seem innocently ambiguous can in fact leave an incredibly powerful mark.
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Royally Racist: The Fear Behind the One-Drop Rule to Preserve Whiteness Beacon Broadside: A Project of Beacon Press 2021-03-11 Yaba Blay Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are so done with the way the royal family has treated them. We wish the couple and their children all the happiness in the world. Photo…
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To her credit, the former actress, now duchess, has refused to buckle under pressure from the royal family, scurrilous British tabloids, the intensely bigoted right-wing American media and has made it clear that she intends to call things as she sees them and will not be bullied or cowed into submission or silence.
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The only surprise is how quickly this post-racial fantasy unraveled, culminating in Sunday’s tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, revealing the harrowing time Markle says she endured as a serving royal.
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From newspaper stories disdaining her every behavior, despite having lauded some of the same actions when White British Royals like Kate Middleton did them, to a reporter literally comparing her newborn son to a monkey, the British media has been unconscionable toward the Duchess of Sussex.