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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Secrets and Lies Ms. Magazine blog Ms. Magazine 2016-05-17 Gail Lukasik The following is an excerpt from White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Identity. In 1995 when I discovered my mother’s black heritage, she made me promise never to tell her secret until she died. I kept her secret for 17…