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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Don’t let the politics of BLM define mixed-race Americans The New York Daily News 2021-06-19 Charles Byrd Mixed-race Americans (Shutterstock/Shutterstock) Prior to June 12, 1967, anti-miscegenation laws still existed in the southern United States. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned those remaining statutes of segregationist race-consciousness with its landmark “Loving v. Virginia” decision. That case did…
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The racist who fatally drove a sword through 66-year-old Timothy Caughman said Sunday he hoped the attack would stop white women from entering relationships with black men.
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Mixed marriages, stubborn racial bias: Discrimination persists for the nonwhite The New York Daily News 2016-12-09 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University Mildred and Richard Loving (Associated Press) “I ’m pregnant.” Those are the first two words uttered in the recently released film “Loving.” The poignant opening prompts viewers to consider the most contested…
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“As many of you know, I was adopted. As African-Americans in general, it’s often hard to know where our ancestry, where our roots are. As someone that was adopted, for me, it has been even harder. All I ever really knew was that I was from Milwaukee, but recently, I took an Ancestry DNA test…
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Al Sharpton says some criticism of de Blasio is related to his mixed race family The New York Daily News 2016-01-05 Jennifer Fermino, City Hall Bureau Chief The Rev. Al Sharpton thinks that some of Mayor de Blasio’s woes stem from his mixed race family. Speaking Tuesday morning at an interfaith breakfast, Sharpton said that…
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Even though my skin is fair, not once have I considered what it would be like to somehow transform myself into “being white.” I wouldn’t even know where to begin. By the time I was in the seventh grade, I exclusively sat at the “black lunch table,” not as a guest, but as a resident.…