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: Moises Velasquez-Manoff
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But Dr. [Kristin] Pauker belongs to a small group of psychologists, many of them mixed themselves, who have begun to explore the advantages of being multiracial. For instance, Sarah Gaither at Duke, a frequent collaborator of Dr. Pauker’s, has discovered that, when reminded of their multiracial heritage, mixed-race individuals score higher on tests that measure…
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Science has revealed how arbitrary racial categories are. Perhaps medicine will abandon them, too.
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Can a Dress Shirt Be Racist? Backchannel 2016-03-31 Moises Velasquez-Manoff Illustration by Michael Marsicano A startup finds that asking for certain data improves the fit of its clothes — and lands the company in a cultural minefield In 2008, an entrepreneur named Seph Skerritt was frustrated with the way he shopped for clothes. Then a student at…