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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Tag: Terry Gross
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What’s interesting is when I started ballet at 13 years old, I was told I had everything that it took to be a ballet dancer, physically, artistically. So that’s why there’s kind of this interesting dichotomy when I think about Black women specifically in ballet and the language that’s being used in telling us that…
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Williams spent the first ten years of his life believing he was white in segregated Virginia, and that his dark-skinned father was Italian. When his parents’ marriage ended, his father took him and his brother to Muncie, Indiana, where the boys learned that they were half black.
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And so he [a Chinese businessman] develops this scheme to bring his sons to Mozambique – teenage sons, one of them about 17, one of them a few years younger. And his idea that he comes up with is that if he marries off or at least has his sons procreate with local women, that…
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“I mean, how do you explain… to children that slavery existed in freedom-loving America, No. 1; and No. 2, how do you explain to a child about an enslaved heritage shrouded in miscegenation? It’s not an easy thing to do.” —Regina Mason Terry Gross, “When Ancestry Search Led To Escaped Slave: ‘All I Could Do…
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When Ancestry Search Led To Escaped Slave: ‘All I Could Do Was Weep’ Fresh Air (From WHYY in Philadelphia) National Public Radio 2016-01-18 Terry Gross, Host When she was in fifth grade, Regina Mason received a school assignment that would change her life: to connect with her country of origin. That night, she went home…
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Privilege And Pressure: A Memoir Of Growing Up Black And Elite In ‘Negroland’ Code Switch: Fronties of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-09-08 Terry Gross, Host Fresh Air Growing up in the 1950s, Margo Jefferson was part of Chicago’s black upper class. The daughter of a prominent doctor and his socialite wife, Jefferson…
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Mat Johnson On ‘Loving Day’ And Life As A ‘Black Boy’ Who Looks White Fresh Air National Public Radio 2015-06-29 Terry Gross, Host As a biracial child growing up in Philadelphia, writer Mat Johnson identified as black – but looked white. His new novel is about a man who returns to his hometown after inheriting…
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China’s economic engagement in Africa can be measured in dollars — for instance, the $71 million airport expansion contract in Mali, funded by American foreign aid, that went to a Chinese construction firm. More remarkably, it can be measured in people: More than a million Chinese citizens have permanently moved to Africa, buying land, starting…
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For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic ‘Power’ Fresh Air National Public Radio 2013-11-20 Terry Gross, Host Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are the duo behind the Comedy Central sketch comedy show Key & Peele. Each has a white mother and black father, and a lot of their comedy is about race: Perhaps…
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Sugar Pie DeSanto: After 50 Years, ‘Go Going’ Strong Fresh Air from WHYY [Philadelphia] National Public Radio 2010-07-29 Terry Gross, Host Ed Ward, Rock Music Commentator Ace Records Sugar Pie DeSanto was born in Brooklyn in October 1935, and was christened Umpeleya Marsema Balinton. Her father was Filipino, her mother African-American. Her mother had been…