Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: The Boston Globe
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For years, I passed as white. Only later did I realize the advantages I was getting made me complicit in a system that oppressed others.
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Finding oneself in ‘Surviving the White Gaze’ The Boston Globe 2021-01-28 Blaise Allysen Kearsley, Globe Correspondent Judith Rudd for The Boston Globe Surviving The White Gaze: A Memoir By Rebecca Carroll Simon & Schuster, 320 pp., $26 The core function of tween- and teen-hood is the lofty job of figuring out who we are, as…
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What Big Papi, Gwen Ifill, and Celia Cruz have in common.
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There is no monolithic way to be black. Such attacks on Harris are idiotic when there are real and serious policy issues to be discussed. In America, blackness is demonized, but for black candidates it’s also used as an arbitrary measure of realness versus pandering. It’s concern trolling meant to derail black achievement.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren says now, as she has from the first days of her public life, that she based her assertions about her heritage on her reasonable trust in what she was told about her ancestry as a child.
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All it took for Meghan Markle to “become” black was a proposal from a prince.
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Danzy Senna, “New People, A Novel” (New York: Riverhead, 2017)
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This Sunday is the anniversary of the end of one of the greatest comic strips of all time. On June 25, 1944, the final installment of “Krazy Kat” was published, two months after the death of its creator, George Herriman.