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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“Jade bracelets are meant to protect Chinese toddlers when they’re learning to walk, like talismans – if the baby falls down, the idea is that the circle of stone will smash rather than the child be hurt. For me, it represents the broken bloodline of my Chinese inheritance – disrupted by the fact that my…
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Prize-winning Hong Kong-born poet Sarah Howe makes verse of city’s Basic Law South China Morning Post 2016-07-07 Clare Tyrrell-Morin Having played down her Chinese side while growing up and studying in the UK, Howe, now at Harvard, has turned to it again as she makes an ‘erasure poem’ out of Hong Kong’s mini-constitution We meet…
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Afro-Chinese marriages boom in Guangzhou: but will it be ’til death do us part’? South China Morning Post Magazine South China Morning Post Hong Kong, China 2014-06-01 Jenni Marsh, Assistant Editor Jennifer Tsang and Eman Okonkwo at their wedding in Guangzhou in April. Photo: Jenni Marsh Guangzhou is witnessing many Afro-Chinese marriages, but the mainland’s…