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 Undefeated
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I wouldn’t have it any other way
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“The best thing about it is you’re showing kids that no matter where you grow up, what race you are, that you can achieve your dream,” [Patrick] Mahomes said during the lead-up to the Super Bowl. “For me, being a black quarterback — having a black dad and a white mom — it just shows…
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With dramatic Super Bowl win, the Chiefs star punctuates spectacular year
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Hair is Africa’s most enduring marker in America, the phenotype most likely to persist through generations of interracial children. Hair is what black folks look at when trying to determine who is one of us. Many mixed-race people are not permitted to fully determine their own identity because of how the world insists on defining…
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How the high school athlete endured his infamous haircut
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The golfer’s DUI arrest highlights the country’s ‘one-drop’ rule and his complex relationship with black America
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Misty Copeland En Pointe The Undefeated 2016-12-14 Kelley L. Carter, Senior Culture Writer Photographs by Brent Lewis Videos by Lois Nam, Senior Digital Producer America’s most famous prima ballerina heads to Cuba to represent female athleticism. (Yes, athleticism.) HAVANA, Cuba Misty Copeland is at the barre. She’s demonstrating a battement tendu to a group of…