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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At age 3, Shane McCrae was taken from his Black father by his white grandparents — a rupture he explores in a new memoir.
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An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents.
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Jeannie Gustavson almost gave up on finding her lost love. Then one small break revealed something she never expected.
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Their interracial romance ended painfully after college. They reunited 42 years later — and now live together. The Washington Post 2021-10-04 Sydney Page, Freelance Reporter Steve Watts and Jeanne Gustavson, while they were dating in secret in the 1970s. The couple met in college at a German Club meeting, when Gustavson was a freshman and…
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From the indie rockstar of “Japanese Breakfast” fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.
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“Racial “passing” allowed light-skinned black Americans to sidestep racism faced by black people and claim the privilege of whiteness in public spaces,” explained Dwaine Plaza, professor of sociology with the OSU School of Public Policy, who will be joining Landis during the Feb. 24 presentation. “The practice, writes historian Robert Fikes, Jr., was ‘seen by…
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Patriot Prayer’s leader is half-Japanese. Black and brown faces march with the Proud Boys. Is the future of hate multicultural?
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Exploring Classification of Black-White Biracial Students in Oregon Schools University of Oregon December 2012 145 pages Deana M. James Presented to the Department of Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership and the Graduate School of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Multiracial children constitute one…
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Race In The Northwest: Hood River Man Learns His Family’s Surprising Truth Oregon Public Broadcasting 2016-12-07 Anna Griffin, News Director Hood River writer and cidermaker John Metta. Anna Griffin/OPB Hood River, Oregon—John Metta grew up thinking of himself as mixed race: His mother was white. His father’s side of the family proudly proclaimed themselves a blend of…
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This mixed race family didn’t ‘see color.’ Then police said a white supremacist killed their son The Oregonian 2016-10-16 Casey Parks A banner hanging above the couch proclaims it a house divided. “But only when it comes to football,” Natasha Bruce said. When it came to race, the old wood house in Vancouver, Wash. was…