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 Times of London
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Miss France ‘whitened’ for Paris Match The Times of London 2016-12-23 Charles Bremner, Europe Editor A row over racism has tainted this year’s Miss France contest after the winner was pictured in a magazine with apparently lightened features and her hair straightened. Alicia Aylies, an 18-year-old student who earlier won the Miss French Guiana contest, was…
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Blend it like Britain The Sunday Times The Times of London 2016-11-06 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown United colours: one in 10 people in this country are in a mixed relationship MORDECHAI MEIRI An acclaimed new movie, A United Kingdom, is set to shine a spotlight on mixed-race relationships — and how British women changed society’s attitude towards…
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Medieval black Briton found The Times of London 2010-05-02 Gillian Passmore A SKELETON uncovered in the ruins of a friary is the earliest physical evidence of a black person living in Britain in medieval times. The remains of a man, found in the friary in Ipswich, Suffolk, which was destroyed by Henry VIII, have…