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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“Those cards have been copied. B means black.” She looked me up and down. “You know the saying, ‘there’s a nigger in every woodshed.’”
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I went looking for information on my mother’s side of the family. My experience was eye-opening
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Stealth sisterhood: I look white, but I’m also black. And I don’t hate Rachel Dolezal Salon 2017-04-23 Alli Joseph A photo of the author with her mother. I am white, I am black, I am Native American. And I know what it’s like for people not to see all of who I am On a…
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“Brillo head,” “Don King,” “Sideshow Bob”: It took me years to embrace the hair that white people scorned Salon 2015-11-28 Sarah Enelow Growing up, everyone thought they could “fix” my hair. I believed them, and paid the price. I was 16 and had been in the bathroom for two hours working on my hair. My…
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“You get a cookie for being offended”: Mat Johnson on the fine art of racial satire Salon 2015-05-24 Laura Miller The author of “Pym” talks about his new novel, his love-hate relationship with Twitter and being a black nerd Mat Johnson is a little apprehensive about his new novel, “Loving Day,” a satire of race…
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“There is nothing ‘black’ about rioting”: Actor Jesse Williams unloads on Baltimore critics in passionate Twitter essay Salon 2015-04-28 Joanna Rothkopf, Assistant Editor (Credit: DFree via Shutterstock) The “Grey’s Anatomy” actor wrote about the prevelance of rioting throughout history On Monday evening, as Baltimore was rocked by violent and nonviolent protests alike, actor Jesse Williams,…
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A real-life Lucious Lyon: The former slave who built a Beale Street “Empire” and transformed Memphis
A real-life Lucious Lyon: The former slave who built a Beale Street “Empire” and transformed Memphis Salon 2015-04-04 Preston Lauterbach Bob Church (Credit: University of Memphis Special Collections) Memphis — and music as we know it — wouldn’t be the same without Robert Church’s legacy of vice, virtue and power Depending on which critic or…