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 Tempest
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I don’t know why I felt a need to choose. I was only cutting myself in half.
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Colorblindness is not Progressive: a Review of “The Color of Water” The Tempest 2016-06-11 Maya Williams We should make it clear that the concept of colorblindness isn’t just a white perspective to have or to talk about. The Color of Water: a Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother (1995) tells the story of a…
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I’m mixed race. That doesn’t mean you can ask me, “What are you?” The Tempest 2016-05-21 Maya Williams I’m not your exotic half-breed toy, so don’t treat me, or anyone else, like one. “Which parent is white?” many have asked me. That question tends to bother me as much as the “What are you?” question,…