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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“That fascinates me that there was a black person [Samuel Codes Watson] who had white privilege and was cognizant of his ethnicity,” he said. “When you really think about it, he kinda wasn’t a black person when he was there. That’s such a juxtaposition for me.” —Tylonn J. Sawyer Micah Walker, “He passed as a…
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Scholar’s debut novel ties black, Native-American history The Detroit Free Press 2015-03-22 Cassandra Spratling Tiya Miles got it honest. Straight from her grandmother’s garden. That knack for telling stories that pull at your heartstrings. “I’m one of those people who had a storytelling grandma,” says Miles. “We’d be in the garden or snapping peas on…