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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Documenting the UK’s Black and Mixed Race Gingers Vice 2105-08-24 Natasha Culzac Francis Johnson by Michelle Marshall How would you describe a typical redhead? Do you think of Julianne Moore: light skinned and beautiful, with rust-coloured hair and a flush of crimson through her porcelain cheeks? Or do you think of Ed Sheeran? Either way,…
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Photographer Explores The Beautiful Diversity Of Redheads Of Color The Huffington Post 2015-08-25 Priscilla Frank, Arts Writer Michelle Marshall Red hair is usually the result of a mutation in a gene called MC1R, also known as a melanocortin 1 receptor. Normally, when activated by a certain hormone, MC1R sparks a series of signals that leads…