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: Narratively
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The only tribe I’d ever identified with was the punk rock scene. The few kids up north I had punk rock in common with also happened to be white, and soon I was the half-white kid who hung out with the whites. I’d been mistaken for Italian in New York and New Jersey before, and…
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When I went to prison I was black. By the time I got out 11 years later I was crazy, fascist and white.
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People see an elderly white woman and her middle-aged black daughter and assume I must be the hired help.
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For the first time, the 2000 Census offered an option for mixed race that gave the respondent the chance to self-declare the components of his or her own identity. Dozens of racial and ethnic categories were listed for those who wished to check all the boxes of their multicultural, multi-racial, selves, including a box for…
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For most of our history, the U.S. government treated biracial Americans as if we didn’t even exist, but my family has stories to tell.
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The Forgotten Supervillain of Antebellum Tennessee Narratively: Human Stories, Boldy Told. 2015-04-28 Betsy Phillips (Photo Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isaac-franklin-by-wb-cooper.jpg) In a brutal business defined by cruelty, Isaac Franklin was perhaps the worst slave trader in all of cotton country—and the richest man in the south. Yet today his heinous crimes are long forgotten. The people of Nashville…