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 Seattle Times
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Seattle-based Coast Guard cutter’s journey through the Arctic: No ‘ice liberty’ in changing waters The Seattle Times 2021-10-20 Hal Bernton, Staff Reporter The Coast Guard Cutter Healy in the iceberg-laden waters of Baffin Bay near Umanak Fjord, Greenland, on Sept. 24. Healy was designed to support a wide range of Arctic research activities with more…
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State and federal programs aim to ensure minority-owned businesses can compete for government contracts after generations of institutional discrimination. A Lynnwood man long identified as white is using DNA ethnicity estimates to claim minority status.
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SPOKANE — A woman who rose to prominence as a black civil-rights leader then lost her job when her parents exposed her as white is struggling to make a living these days.
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It is the very subject of “Resonance,” North Corner Chamber Orchestra’s concert “Celebrating Black American Composers,” that left Seattle-based composer Hanna Benn, 29, in a bit of quandary. As much as she was delighted to work with one of the world’s few conductorless chamber orchestras, her commission to honor black American composers left her pondering…
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Seattle’s multiracial identity evolves along with census The Seattle Times 2016-08-18 Gene Balk Now that Americans can select more than one racial category, we rank high nationally in terms of multiracial population and percentage. TODAY — WHEN NEARLY 10 million Americans identify as multiracial — it’s strange to think that just a few decades ago,…
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Helping mixed-race Asian kids navigate a world that isn’t post-racial The Seattle Times 2016-03-16 Jerry Large, Columnist Sharon H. Chang is author of “Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Children in a Post-Racial World.” (Courtesy of Sheila Addleman) Seattle author writes about the challenges of raising multiracial Asian children in America and helping then overcome racial biases.…
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[Gabriel] Galanda’s own ancestors were Native American, Scandinavian, Portuguese and Austrian — a mixed heritage that caused him to question his identity during his formative years. But he says he kept remembering his grandma, born on California’s Round Valley Indian Tribes reservation, putting him on her knee and saying, in her smoky, gravelly voice, “You’re…
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DEMING, Whatcom County — In his big gray truck, Gabriel Galanda makes a notable entrance into a Nooksack tribal-housing development of a couple dozen modest homes, set on a winding road about a half-hour east of Bellingham. Many of the residents, members of a sprawling clan who move easily in and out of each other’s…
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New UW center to encourage race, diversity dialogue The Seattle Times 2015-07-12 Katherine Long, Seattle Times higher education reporter Ralina Joseph is the new director of the University of Washington’s Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity. (Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times) A new center at the University of Washington aims to help people figure out…