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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Enlightenment Poetry Daily 2012-10-09 From Thrall by Natasha Trethewey, Poet Laureate of the United States In the portrait of Jefferson that hangs at Monticello, he is rendered two-toned: his forehead white with illumination— a lit bulb—the rest of his face in shadow, darkened as if the artist meant to contrast his bright knowledge,…