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 Philadelphia Inquirer
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I wish I could ask my grandfather what drove his family to stake such a full claim to their Blackness. Why did they choose to celebrate it when they could have easily hid it? Not only did they choose to live in a Black world, my family rejected the idea that their proximity to whiteness…
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Black identity is usually wrapped up in not having choice. My family used their light-skinned privilege to flip that choice and turned Blackness into a celebration of pride and identity and love.
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Black people have always accepted mixed-race people as part of their community. With [Barack] Obama, I think white people needed to be OK with voting for him. They needed to feel that he would look out for them. One way to do that was to emphasize the white part of his identity … With Meghan…
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‘To be black doesn’t have to mean anything more than what I already am’ The Philadelphia Inquirer 2016-02-06 Sofiya Ballin, Staff Writer Sonia Galiber, Director of Operations at Urban Creators Michael Bryant For Black History Month, we’re exploring history and identity through the lens of joy. Black joy is the ability to love and celebrate…
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Jones: Kaepernick, Lochte cases are as different as black and white The Philadelphia Inquirer 2016-08-30 Solomon Jones SAN FRANCISCO 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick sits down during the national anthem to protest America’s treatment of people of color, and he is accused of being a traitor to his country. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte is facing criminal…
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What an 1887 murder and dismemberment tells us about race relations today The Philadelphia Inquirer 2016-02-17 Samantha Melamed, Staff Writer On the freezing-cold morning of Feb. 17, 1887, a Bensalem carpenter walking by an ice pond noticed a parcel wrapped in brown paper and marked “handle with care.” Inside, he found a male torso of…
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Holocaust Art By A Jew Who Was Black Josef Nassy’s Vision Of Nazi Camps Has Its First U.s. Show Here. The Philadelphia Inquirer 1989-04-04 Leonard W. Boasberg, Inquirer Staff Writer There are strength and pathos in the drawings. There are loneliness and community, a sense of the desperation of the individual – the prisoner, the…