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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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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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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Oregon’s Portland Community College to mark ‘Whiteness History Month’ NBC News 2016-01-21 Shamar Walters and Cassandra Vinograd First comes Black History Month and then … Whiteness History Month? A community college in Oregon has set aside April to look at “whiteness” — but not to celebrate what it’s described as a social construct which leads…
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Portlander Damaris Webb explores racial gray areas in ‘The Box Marked Black’ The Oregonian Portland, Oregon 2013-02-16 Marty Hughley When it came time for Damaris Webb to apply for college, her father encouraged her to check the box on application forms indicating “black” as her racial origin. For long enough in his family’s history, being…