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: The Kansas City Star
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Jewish girl overcomes a ‘Little White Lie’ about race The Kansas City Star Kansas City, Missouri 2015-01-05 Jeneé Osterheldt When I look at one of her old baby pictures, I think of my own childhood snapshots. A mixed little girl sits happily in her white mama’s lap. It’s a sweet picture of Lacey Schwartz and…
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Mixed roots, common bonds The Kansas City Star Kansas City, Missouri 2014-07-21 Jeneé Osterheldt Her first year at KU [University of Kansas], Jasmin Moore noticed the black students sat together. The Hispanic students sat together. And everyone else did the same. This was over a decade ago. “For the first time, I was trying to…
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‘The River Between Us’: A story of survival and transformation The Kansas City Star 2013-04-12 Edward M. Eveld It’s the eve of the Civil War in Richard Peck’s novel “The River Between Us,” and the country is rearranging itself for the coming conflict. A prelude to the convulsion plays even in the tiny river-landing town…